BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agrawal files for bail

A BrahMos Aerospace engineer, who is accused of passing off sensitive information to Pakistan spy agency ISI, Monday filed a bail application before a court here claiming he did not possess any such information and only had some study material on his laptop.

In his plea, Nishant Agrawal claimed that neither did he possess any secret information, nor did he pass it on to any Pakistani spies as alleged by prosecution.

Agrawal, a senior systems engineer in Brahmos Aerospace facility in Nagpur, was arrested on October 8, 2018 in a joint operation by Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Anti- Terrorism Squad (ATS) from Brahmos Aerospace in Nagpur.

Appearing for Agrawal, defence counsel Prakash Jaiswal contented that the prosecution's allegation that a spy from Pakistant was operating two Facebook accounts with whom the engineer was in touch with, cannot be verified.

He said the director of Brahmos had said in his reply that there was no specific information given to Agrawal which could have been .