NEW DELHI – Times of India has made startling revelations over how thesecret Indian missile technology was leaked by top scientist to Pakistaniagencies allegedly.
The lure of a $30,000/month IT job in Canada was too much to resist forNishant Aggarwal. So, when he was asked for “specimens” of his work at theBrahMos missile project as part of the offer, the scientist immediatelycomplied, reported *Times of India.link*
That proved to be a huge mistake on part of Nishant, the engineer withBrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, who was arrested for sharing crucial details ofthe supersonic missile project with Pakistani agents.
A Nagpur court on Tuesday allowed a three-day transit remand of NishantAgarwal on the request of Uttar Pradesh ATS. The ATS team is likely tobring him to Lucknow by Wednesday morning.
The TOI report claimed that Canada-based ‘Sejal Kapoor’, with whom Nishantchatted regularly on Facebook, invited the engineer to interact onLinkedIn. Later, she sent a ‘link’ to Nishant so that he could chat withher seniors too. When he clicked the link, a malware was downloaded in hiscomputer. Using the malware, substantial data was stolen from Nishant’scomputer.
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During his interrogation, Nishant is also learnt to have admitted that heused to regularly chat with another ‘Neha Sharma’ on Facebook. His chatremained restricted to only a few times with ‘Neha’, whose link has beentraced to Pakistan.
Sources said even Nishant was “clueless” about how much of sensitive datahad been stolen from his computer.
Nishant has named some DRDO officials and his former Hyderabad-based senioras the ones with whom he hadshared information.
