Senior DRDO official held in suspected honey trap case with Pakistan links

Kurulkar has worked on several strategically significant projects of the DRDO including several missiles. He has been booked under Official Secrets Act.

A senior ATS officer told The Indian Express that the investigation was launched following a complaint received in this regard from the DRDO. “Pradeep Kurulkar was placed under arrest on Wednesday and was produced before a court in Pune on Thursday, where his custody was secured by the ATS. The DRDO had approached with the preliminary information,” said the officer.

“This primarily seems to be a case of honeytrap in which the senior scientist has come into contact with Pakistan-based intelligence operatives after he was trapped using photos of women on social media platforms. He was in contact with the Pakistan-based operatives through voice messages and video calls from September-October last year and suspected to have shared some sensitive information with the operatives,” the officer said.

Kurulkar’s profile on the DRDO website describes him as a “Team Leader and Lead Designer” who “has played a major and pioneering role in the successful design, development and delivery of a number of Military Engineering Systems and Equipments including Missile Launchers for Programme AD, MRSAM, Nirbhay Subsonic Cruise Missile System, Prahar, QRSAM, XRSAM, Hyperbaric Chamber and Mobile Power Supply and High Pressure Pneumatic Systems.”

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The profile states: “On March 27, 2019, DRDO successfully conducted Mission Shakti, an anti-satellite missile test. The critical subsystem of this mission was the design and development of a ballistic missile Launcher from concept to a deployable prototype. The Launcher was developed in a very short time of three months under the able guidance and leadership of Shri PM Kurulkar.”