The Bombay High Court has granted bail to a former engineer of BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, arrested in 2018 on charges of spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, noting he has been in jail for nearly five times and the trial in the case may not conclude soon.
A single bench of Justice Anil Kilor, while granting bail to him on April 3, also remarked that prima facie there was no material to suggest the alleged act was committed designedly by the indicted, Nishant Aggrawal.
The HC’s Nagpur bench allowed the solicitation filed by Mr Aggrawal seeking bail on the ground there was no progress in the trial and that he has been in jail for four times and six months.
The bench directed the indicted to furnish a particular bond of ₹ 25,000 and attend the Nagpur police station three times a week till the end of the trial.
Mr Aggrawal, employed in the specialized exploration section of the company’s bullet centre in Nagpur, was arrested in October 2018 in a common operation by the Military Intelligence and the Anti-Terrorism outfits (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
The former BrahMos Aerospace mastermind was reserved under colorful vittles of the Indian Penal Code and the strict Official Secrets Act (OSA). He’d worked at the BrahMos installation for four times and was indicted of oohing sensitive specialized information to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
BrahMos Aerospace is a common adventure between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the’ Military Industrial Consortium’ (NPO Mashinostroyenia) of Russia.
elderly advocate SV Manohar and endorse Deven Chauhan, appearing for Mr Aggrawal, had argued during the bail hail that vittles of the OSA would not stand against their customer.
The court, in its bail order, said the execution’s case is that of honey trap and cyber conditioning by charming officers in order to trap them in illegal spying exertion.
The HC noted that it wasn’t the execution’s case that if Mr Aggrawal, firstly hailing from Roorkee in Uttarakhand, was released on bail, there would be a peril to the safety and security of the state.
The bench also took note of the fact that in the once nine months, only six substantiations were examined in the case, while 11 others were yet to swear. Hence, it’s clear the trial would not conclude soon.
