<p>A Nagpur court on Tuesday granted three days’ transit remand to BrahMos engineer Nishant Agarwal, who was suspected to be an agent of the ISI, the Pakistani spy agency.</p>.<p>A junior scientist, Agarwal worked for the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd and was based in Nagpur.</p>.<p>He has been accused of leaking technical information about the supersonic BrahMos missile, which is a collaborative project of India and Russia.</p>.<p>He was arrested by a team of Anti-Terrorism Squads of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.</p>.<p>The Uttar Pradesh police told the Judicial Magistrate First Class S M Joshi that the accused was arrested under the Official Secrets Act.</p>.<p>They told the court that Agarwal was in touch with certain Pakistani intelligence via two fake Facebook accounts by the names of ‘Pooja Rajan’ and ‘Neha Sharma’.</p>.<p>These accounts, created in Islamabad, are reportedly operated by Pakistan’s ISI, and Agrawal was found chatting with them. He was caught when the Uttar Pradesh police started monitoring these accounts.</p>
<p>A Nagpur court on Tuesday granted three days’ transit remand to BrahMos engineer Nishant Agarwal, who was suspected to be an agent of the ISI, the Pakistani spy agency.</p>.<p>A junior scientist, Agarwal worked for the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd and was based in Nagpur.</p>.<p>He has been accused of leaking technical information about the supersonic BrahMos missile, which is a collaborative project of India and Russia.</p>.<p>He was arrested by a team of Anti-Terrorism Squads of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.</p>.<p>The Uttar Pradesh police told the Judicial Magistrate First Class S M Joshi that the accused was arrested under the Official Secrets Act.</p>.<p>They told the court that Agarwal was in touch with certain Pakistani intelligence via two fake Facebook accounts by the names of ‘Pooja Rajan’ and ‘Neha Sharma’.</p>.<p>These accounts, created in Islamabad, are reportedly operated by Pakistan’s ISI, and Agrawal was found chatting with them. He was caught when the Uttar Pradesh police started monitoring these accounts.</p>