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Added on : 2018-10-10 17:56:18

Nishant aggarwal, the senior systems engineer of BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, who was arrested on Monday on espionage charges, was promised a job in America with a hefty pay package by his “Pakistani handlers”, sources privy to the probe said on Tuesday. “His interrogation has revealed that he was promised better job prospects by the handlers who posed as women and honey-trapped him. These accounts have been traced to Pakistan,” said an official. The agencies are probing if Aggarwal leaked sensitive data pertaining to the supersonic cruise missile, Brahmos, to his “handler”, who is suspected to be from Pakistan.

Nishant aggarwal, the senior systems engineer of BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, who was arrested on Monday on espionage charges, was promised a job in America with a hefty pay package by his “Pakistani handlers”, sources privy to the probe said on Tuesday. “His interrogation has revealed that he was promised better job prospects by the handlers who posed as women and honey-trapped him. These accounts have been traced to Pakistan,” said an official. The agencies are probing if Aggarwal leaked sensitive data pertaining to the supersonic cruise missile, Brahmos, to his “handler”, who is suspected to be from Pakistan.

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