Nagpur District Court sentenced to life imprisonment under sections 3 and 5 of the Official secrets Act (OSA) to Nishant Agrawal, former engineer of Brahmos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, arrested in 2018 on charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI.
The Court Said in its order that the accused Nishant Agrawal is hereby convicted under section (235) of code of criminal procedure for an offence punishable under section 66-f of I.T. Act and sec 3 (1) (c) of official Secret Act and Section 5(1)(a)(b) (c) (d) and 5(3) of the official Secret Act.
The court sentenced Agrawal to suffer life imprisonment and RI for 14 years under sections of Official Secrets Act and fine of Rs 3000.
Agrawal, employed in the technical research section of the company’s missile centre in Nagpur, was arrested in a joint operation by the military intelligence and Anti-terrorism squads (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.