India arrests engineer in arms joint venture with Russia
Indian police have arrested one of the technical staff of the Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace on charges of spying for Pakistan, NDTV channel reported, referring to the Uttar Pradesh state police.
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The arrested man was an employee of the technical research department named Nishant Agraval, who had worked there for four years. His colleagues described him as an excellent engineer.
Agrawal was arrested in a joint operation, carried out by Indian military intelligence along with Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra state police, the TV channel reported.
"We have found very sensitive information on his personal computer. We have evidence that the suspect was exchanging messages on Facebook with users from Pakistan," said Asim Arun, Uttar Pradesh police chief.
Agrawal is accused of passing classified information to the Federal Intelligence Agency of Pakistan, as well as to the authorities of several other countries. The suspect's personal and work computers have been confiscated and are being examined.
Meanwhile, some experts have expressed doubts that this employee actually had access to confidential data. BrahMos Aerospace has not officially commented on this information.
