India, Dec. 2 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday set aside the life sentence awarded to BrahMos Aerospace engineer Nishant Agarwal, reducing his punishment to three years' imprisonment, a period he has already served, and ordering his immediate release.

Agarwal, 28, was arrested in 2018 in a joint operation by the Anti-Terrorism Squads of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and Military Intelligence for allegedly spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and leaking sensitive information related to the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile project.

In June this year, a Nagpur district court had convicted him under multiple provisions of the Official Secrets Act (OSA) and the IT Act, sentencing him to life impriso...