Bail plea in Brahmos info leak to be heard today

Nagpur | Tuesday | 26th March, 2019

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Nishant was shifted to the Central Jail here this month.A team of Uttar Pradesh ATS is already camping in the city. A senior officer in the ATS at Uttar Pradesh said that the bail application would be heard here on Tuesday.An earlier bail plea before a district judge in Lucknow in November was rejected. Since Agarwal was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police, he was shifted to Lucknow, where he was presented before the court. Nagpur: The bail application of Nishant Agarwal, engineer at Brahmos Aerospace Private Limited (BAPL), who was arrested for allegedly leaking sensitive documents to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, will be heard on Tuesday. Agarwal was arrested under the Official Secrets Act from Nagpur in October last year by the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh police.He was employed at BAPL’s unit at Butibori..