HAL employee arrested for supplying aircraft info to Pak's ISI

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    Mumbai, Oct 9 (PTI) A Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(HAL) employee has been arrested for supplying fighter
aircraft info 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.
    "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.
    The man was supplying the secret information about
Indian fighter aircraft and their sensitive details, along
with the information related to HAL's aircraft manufacturing
unit at Ojhar near Nashik, airbase and some prohibited areas
inside the manufacturing unit, he 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.
    HAL's Aircraft Division Nashik, established in 1964
for licence manufacture of MiG-21FL aircraft and K-13
missiles, is located at Ojhar, 24 km from Nashik and around
200 km from Mumbai.
    The division has also manufactured other MiG variants
like MiG-21M, MiG-21 BIS, MiG-27 M and the state-of-the-art
aircraft Su-30 MKI fighter jet. The division also carries out
overhaul of the MiG series aircraft and Repair and Overhaul
(ROH) of Su-30 MKI aircraft. PTI DC VT
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