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ISRO denied to have released the letter shown by the accused
The space agency will soon send a detailed reply to the Gujarat Police.
The accused also claimed to have B.Com and M.Com degrees.
face. A private teacher was arrested in Gujarat’s Surat on Tuesday for allegedly posing as a scientist of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Gujarat man claims to be ISRO scientist who designed lander module for Chandrayaan-3 moon mission . In which everything was found to be false, after that the police arrested him from Surat city of Gujarat. Police officials gave this information.
He told that this person had interviewed the media in Surat, claiming himself to be a scientist and claimed that he had designed the lander module for the moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-3’. The accused, Mitul Trivedi, is around 30 years old and used to pose as an ISRO scientist to attract more students for his tuition classes in Surat city.
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A complaint was filed against Trivedi after he was seen giving an interview to the local media on August 23 after the Vikram lander successfully landed on the lunar surface, claiming to have designed the module of Chandrayaan-3, an official said.
He said that Trivedi allegedly presented himself as the “Assistant Chairman” of ISRO’s “Ancient Science Applications Department” and also produced a fake appointment letter.
Police said in a statement that a thorough probe revealed that the man was not associated with ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 mission in any way and had falsely claimed to be an ISRO employee.
According to the statement, despite not contributing to the ambitious project, he spread fake messages about ISRO, thereby damaging the reputation of the Bengaluru-headquartered organisation.
Accordingly, the Surat city crime branch registered a case against the accused under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), and 471 (forging document as genuine). use) registered an FIR u/s.
Additional Commissioner of Police Sharad Singhal told that Trivedi is a private teacher, who used to present himself as an ISRO scientist in front of the media to attract more students in his tuition classes. He said that we contacted ISRO who said that prima facie the letter shown by the accused was not issued by him. The space agency will soon send a detailed reply.
When asked why he presented himself as a scientist, Singhal said that the accused conducts tuition classes and making such a claim would have helped him attract more students. The police officer said that he claimed that he had B.Com and M.Com degrees.
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Tags: Chandrayaan-3, Gujarat news, ISRO, News letter
FIRST PUBLISHED : August 30, 2023, 08:35 AM IST
