NAGPUR: Sleuths of the ATS Uttar Pradesh and military intelligence have detained a young engineer of BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture organisation of Indian and Russian governments, which has its key unit in Nagpur.

The engineer (in his mid-twenties) was identified as Nishant Agrawal and was working with the organisation for the last four years. He is suspected of passing technical information related to missile technology to Pakistani and US intelligence agencies. Sources say he has been booked under the Official Secrets Act.

The action in Nagpur is a follow-up of the arrest of three persons which included an ISI agent and two DRDO employees in Kanpur.

The cops who had grilled the trio, found that they were in contact with Agrawal. The ISI agent had established contact with him through Facebook using a fake name, said a source.

Following the probe, it was suspected that Agrawal had been passing on the details to the ISI agent who was arrested in Kanpur. The ATS officers had contacted his seniors at the BrahMos Aerospace office, saying that he would be picked up for questioning.

The team landed in Nagpur on Sunday night and swooped down on his rented residence in Ujjwal Nagar.

Neighbours said a team of cops came in a car at around 5 am and entered the house by jumping the compound wall, and entered soon as the door was opened following the ringing of the bell.

BrahMos Aerospace is a commercial organisation which deals in missiles, and has been in Nagpur since a decade. It is headed by Lt General Achyut Deo (retired).

Agrawal's landlord Manohar Kale, a retired central PSU employee, said Agrawal got married in March this year, and was a well-behaved tenant.