Former CEO of Brahmos Aerospace Sudhir Mishra is believed to have moved confidential company documents out of the premises of BrahMos Aerospace.
On the afternoon of his retirement day, a logistics company named Big Logistics India Pvt Ltd, was hired to take out roughly 40 boxes of various sizes along with several documents. The material was taken out of the company’s headquarters without an “out pass”, the Vigilance Department report claimed.Almost a month after his superannuation, on 28 December, 2021, Mishra, a senior DRDO scientist, returned “a number of files, company documents, and information”. The materials he returned contained a file that was labelled ‘CONFIDENTIAL’.
The returning of the documents resulted in the security breach coming to light. That led to an investigation detailing a significant lapse in security protocols at the firm.
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The CCTV footage for a critical 15-day period, the documents show, were found to be missing. There were lapses in maintaining a mandatory 90-day backup of CCTV footage, too.
Moreover, the “out pass” register of returnable and non-returnable items for 90 days was not very well-maintained. The data in both the registers looked to be mixed.
(With Agency Inputs)
