Ex-BrahMos engineer gets life sentence for spying for Pakistan
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A former engineer at BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, Nishant Pradeepkumar Agrawal, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Nagpur court on Monday for spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Arrested in 2018, Agrawal was accused of leaking sensitive data about the BrahMos missile system. The court convicted him under Section 235 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), Section 66(f) of the IT Act, and various sections of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), 1923.