NAGPUR: The lure of a $30,000/month IT job in

was too much to resist for

. So, when he was asked for “specimens” of his work at the

project as part of the offer, the scientist immediately complied.

That proved to be a huge mistake on part of Nishant, the engineer with

Aerospace Pvt Ltd, who was arrested for sharing crucial details of the supersonic missile project with Pakistani agents.

A Nagpur court on Tuesday allowed a three-day transit remand of Nishant Agarwal on the request of

ATS. The ATS team is likely to bring him to Lucknow by Wednesday morning.

Canada-based ‘Sejal Kapoor’, with whom Nishant chatted regularly on Facebook, invited the engineer to interact on

. Later, she sent a ‘link’ to Nishant so that he could chat with her seniors too. When he clicked the link, a malware was downloaded in his computer. Using the malware, substantial data was stolen from Nishant’s computer.

During his interrogation, Nishant is also learnt to have admitted that he used to regularly chat with another ‘Neha Sharma’ on Facebook. His chat remained restricted to only a few times with ‘Neha’, whose link has been traced to Pakistan.

Sources said even Nishant was “clueless” about how much of sensitive data had been stolen from his computer. Nishant has named some DRDO officials and his former Hyderabad-based senior as the ones with whom he had shared information.

ATS sleuths have also questioned some other DRDO officials.