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The Bombay High Court granted bail to a former engineer of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, arrested in 2018 on charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. The court said that the accused engineer has been in jail for almost five years and the trial of the case is not likely to be completed soon. A single bench of Justice Anil Kilor, while granting bail to the accused Nishant Aggarwal on April 3, also said that prima facie there is no evidence to show that the accused had committed the alleged act intentionally.
No progress in the case: The Nagpur bench of the High Court accepted the bail application filed by Agarwal on the ground that there has been no progress in the trial and he has been in jail for four years and six months. The bench directed the accused to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 and attend the Nagpur police station thrice a week till the conclusion of the trial.
ATS had arrested in the year 2018: Agarwal, who worked in the technical research section of the company’s missile center in Nagpur, was arrested in October 2018 in a joint operation by military intelligence and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. The former aerospace engineer of BrahMos was booked under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the stringent Official Secrets Act (OSA).
Accused of giving intelligence to ISI: Accused Agarwal had worked in BrahMos for four years and is accused of passing sensitive technical information to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russia’s Military Industrial Consortium.
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