Nashik: ATS arrests HAL employee for supplying secret aircraft info to Pakistan's ISI

A Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) employee has been arrested by Nashik Unit of ATS for supplying secret information about Indian fighter aircraft & their manufacturing unit to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Maharashtra police said on Friday.

The 41-year-old man was supplying secret information about Indian fighter aircraft and their manufacturing unit to ISI, police said.

"One HAL employee arrested by Nashik Unit of ATS for supplying secret information about Indian fighter aircraft & their manufacturing unit, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Nashik to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a Pakistani intelligence agency: Anti Terrorist Squad. #Maharashtra, ANI tweeted."

The Nashik unit of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) received reliable intelligence about the man, who was in constant touch with ISI," a police official said.

An offence under the Official Secrets Act has been registered against the accused, he said adding three mobile handsets with five SIM cards and two memory cards have been seized from him.

The phones and SIM cards are being sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for examination, he said.

The accused was produced before court on Friday, and has been remanded in ATS custody for 10 days, the official said.

One HAL employee arrested by Nashik Unit of ATS for supplying secret information about Indian fighter aircraft & their manufacturing unit, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, Nashik to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a Pakistani intelligence agency: Anti Terrorist Squad. #Maharashtra

— ANI (@ANI) October 9, 2020