Roorkee: The long ordeal of young scientist Nishant Agarwal has finally ended. On December 1, 2025, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted him of treason charges, clearing his name after eight years of imprisonment and stigma.

Nishant, a 27-year-old scientist from Roorkee, had joined BrahMos Aerospace in Nagpur in 2013. By 2018, he was working on missile development projects and had just received the prestigious Young Scientist Award from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Nishant’s promising career was abruptly halted when, on October 8, 2018, officers from the Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) arrested him at dawn, accusing him of leaking sensitive missile technology to Pakistan.

The stigma of treason weighed heavily on the family. Neighbors’........

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