Information about many missiles including BrahMos-Agni shared, DRDO scientist was infatuated with Pakistan’s ‘beautiful’ agent

There have been new revelations in the charge sheet about DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar, arrested for sharing intelligence to a Pakistani agent. Pune-based DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar, arrested on May 3 on charges of espionage, shared sensitive information about India’s missile, drone and robotics programs with a woman intelligence operative based in Pakistan, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has said. It was In its charge sheet submitted to a special court on June 30, the ATS claimed to have unearthed explosive chats between the scientist and the Pakistani operator. The charge sheet states that 60-year-old Kurulkar was Director, Research in DRDO when he shared this information to establish an intimate relationship with the Pakistani female agent.

It said the alleged Pakistani agent created several fake accounts with different names to connect with Kurulkar. Two of these names were Zara Dasgupta and Juhi Arora. The same operator also set up accounts under these names on messaging apps using two different phone numbers. Both numbers started with the +44 London code. In his messages with purported Zara Dasgupta, Kurulkar spoke candidly about the Meteor missile, on which work is underway at DRDO, BrahMos missiles, Rafale, Akash and Astra missile systems, and the Agni-6 missile launcher. About whose development work is going on.

Possibly in his efforts to impress his female interlocutor, Kurulkar also discussed DRDO’s ongoing work on unmanned combat aerial vehicle, Bharat Quadcopter and medium altitude long-endurance unmanned combat air vehicle Rustom, which DRDO developing. According to the chats attached to the chargesheet, Kurulkar and the Pakistani operatives would start these serious conversations on defense issues with a playful “babe”.