Delhi Crime Branch arrests father, son for duping man of Rs 1.43 crore claiming they sell products to NASA
- Tanseem Haider
- Munish Chandra Pandey
- New Delhi
- May 8, 2018 UPDATED 21:40 IST
Con artists who sold a non-existent device called Rice Puller | Photo courtesy: Tanseem Haider and Munish Pandey
The Delhi Crime Branch has arrested a father and son on the pretext of selling a product to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).
The con artists used space suits and dressed like scientists for the act to be foolproof.
According to the Crime Branch, Virendra Mohan Brar (56) and his son Nitin Mohan Brar (30) lured a victim saying their company could arrange the sale of 'RP' to space agencies at cost of around Rs 37,500 crore after testing its genuineness, which would be done by scientists and some chemicals would be imported for the same.
The complainant was lured that if he invests money for the said testing, he can also earn a handsome amount.
Narendra, a resident of Delhi and a garment businessman approached the crime branch that he has been cheated by Virender Mohan Brar, Nitin Brar and others to the tune of Rs 1.43 crore on pretext of investing money for buying and testing Rice Puller.
Rice Puller (RP) is basically a non-existent object, but cheats take a copper plate or utensil and coat it with liquid magnet and then put in some boiled rice with small iron wires and befool the victim by pulling the iron-clad rice grain towards the magnet coated copper article.
The cheats further befool the victim stating that the object is a rare piece of copper, which is struck by thunderbolt in the hills of Uttarakhand giving it power to pull rice and the same is being used by NASA and DRDO in advanced space research.
They tell the victims that the object will be purchased by NASA and DRDO for thousands of crores of rupees, but they will test it before buying and the testing expenses are to be borne by the seller. They lure the victims to finance the testing bit of it in the lieu of a share in the selling price which is thousands of crores.
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