The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two persons in connection with the theft on board the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) under construction at the Cochin Shipyard here. The NIA is learnt to have nabbed the two from Bihar and Rajasthan on Tuesday night. Even though officials did not disclose the identity of the two, it is learnt that they were engaged by a contractor for painting work as part of the IAC project two years ago. The NIA had taken over the case from a special investigation team of the police that had initially found that the theft was an insider job and that the hardware components that went missing were standard computer components available in the market. The special investigation team had taken some fingerprints from the crime spot.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2020 17:48 UTC