MP youth arrested for faking Rs 1.8 crore job at Nasa

INDORE: For last one month, a youth has been meeting senior police and administrative officials in Dewas asking them to hold felicitation functions for getting a job with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in the USA.

When he flashed a ‘Nasa identity card’ with signatures of US president Barack Obama before Dewas superintendent of police Shashikant Shukla, the senior police officer grew suspicious and launched a probe.

Eventually, twenty-year-old Ansar Khan was arrested for committing fraud.

Khan’s tales of getting a Nasa job with annual salary of Rs 1.85 crore had been making rounds in Dewas district for last one month. A resident of Kamlapur, Khan had been claiming that an instrument placed at his house to monitor weather, has been sending information to Nasa station in Washington DC.

Moved by his claims, the primary school in Kamlapur had felicitated him for the feat during the independence day function in the presence of local dignitaries and politicians.

Wearing the fake identity card around his neck, Khan had been getting entry to government offices and audience with senior officials. On September 20, he visited SP Shukla, who grew suspicious and asked Bagali police station in-charge B S Gore to investigate the matter.

“Probe revealed that Khan was a XII standard pass out. He had appeared for the examinations twice. He had then taken admission in BSc first year course Indore’s IKDC college,” said Gore.

During the course of investigation, a photo studio operator in Kamlapur, Kishore Rathore, told the police that Khan had visited his place some time ago claiming to have received message of his job posting in Nasa. He also took printouts of the identity card.

Kishore claimed that Khan had borrowed money from him, with a promise of repaying the loan it when he returned from Nasa.

Gore detained Khan with documents that he had been producing to claim that he got a job in Nasa. He was also produced before the SP, where he broke down and confessed having cooked up the story.

Khan was booked for fraud and forgery.

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