Bengaluru, March 20 -- In a joint operation led by Central, State and Defence Intelligence Agencies, a senior engineer at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bengaluru, was arrested this morning for allegedly leaking sensitive defence-related information to Pakistan in exchange for Bitcoin payments.

The arrested individual has been identified as 36-year-old Deepraj Chandra, who worked in the Product Development and Innovation Centre Division at BEL. A resident of Mathikere in Bengaluru, Chandra hails from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.

BEL, a public sector aerospace and defence electronics company headquartered in Bengaluru, manufactures advanced electronic products for ground and aerospace applications. It operates under the Ministry of Defen...