{"id":303908,"date":"2018-10-08T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303908"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:55:50","slug":"up-ats-arrests-drdo-employee-for-leaking-brahmos-missile-secrets-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/up-ats-arrests-drdo-employee-for-leaking-brahmos-missile-secrets-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UP ATS arrests DRDO employee for leaking BrahMos missile secrets to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303909 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BRAHMOS-cruise-missile-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/BRAHMOS-cruise-missile-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/BRAHMOS-cruise-missile.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UP Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in coordination with military intelligence has nabbed a man employed with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on October 8 in suspicion of leaking sensitive details about the nuclear-capable BrahMos cruise missile and crucial information of national importance to Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The man is identified as Nishant Agarwal and was arrested from BrahMos production centre near Nagpur, where he was working from past four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He has been currently taken into custody and the ATS is questioning him for the extent of information leaked to Pakistan and raids relating to the alleged espionage were ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to sources some suspicious material was recovered from Agarwal&#8217;s possession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is alleged that Agarwal was leaking information about technical facets of the medium range supersonic cruise missiles to his handlers in Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brahmos, the fastest cruise missile in the world can be launched from submarine, aircraft or land and is a joint venture between the Russian Federation&#8217;s NPO Mashinostroyeniya and India&#8217;s DRDO.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UP Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in coordination with military intelligence has nabbed a man employed with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on October 8 in suspicion of leaking sensitive details about the nuclear-capable BrahMos cruise missile and crucial information of national importance to Pakistan. The man is identified as Nishant Agarwal and was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,2014,2015],"tags":[4101,5469,446,2059,1480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303911,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303908\/revisions\/303911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}