A court here on Thursday sent BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal, who is accused of passing off sensitive information to the ISI, to police remand for seven days.
Special Chief Judicial Magistrate Himanshu Dayal Srivastava passed the order on an application moved by Inspector Pankaj Awasthi of the the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police.
Agarwal was arrested Monday in a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh Police and their Maharashtrian counterpart at BrahMos’ Wardha Road facility in Nagpur for allegedly leaking “technical information” to Pakistan.
He was flown to Lucknow From Nagpur.
The ATS Thursday sought his custody from the court for the purpose of interrogation.
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