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.

Delhi Crime Branch busts con artists who sold a non-existent device called Rice Puller

VICTIM AND THE RICE PULLER

Garment businessman Narendra alleged that a few years ago, he came in contact with one person who told him about huge profits in dealing of Rice Puller, required by NASA/DRDO for space research and they pay thousands of crores for it.

In April 2015, Narendra received a call from one person who told him that he had an RP and wanted to sell it.

The victim then approached the first person who introduced him to another contact working with M/s Rehan Metals, USA, having office in Moti Nagar.

This person then arranged his meeting with Virender Mohan Brar, MD of the company, who told that his company could arrange the sale of RP to NASA at a price of around Rs 37,500 crore (depends on power of RP, pulling rice per inch) after testing its genuineness, which would be done by scientists of DRDO and some chemicals would be imported for the same.

Virender Mohan Brar also told the complainant that they would pay Rs 10 crore immediately as token money if the test found OK.

They called the testing process as 'Movement of RP' and showed cash to the complainant.

After that, the victim entered into an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Virender Mohan Brar and paid Rs 5.6 lakh, Rs 19 lakh, Rs 24.6 lakh and Rs 38 lakh for arranging special anti-radiation suits to be worn by scientists during testing, fees of scientist, for obtaining chemicals required for testing etc.

Thereafter, the testing of the said RP was scheduled in Hapur but could not happen as the accused persons made an excuse that the place was not conducive and after that the said testing was delayed by them on one or another pretext.

At the same time, other associates of the alleged seller of the RP mounted pressure on the victim for finalisation of the deal or they would sell the RP to some other person and took him to another company M/s Stars World Heritage, East of Kailash, for sale of RP and induced him that he would not be cheated this time.

After that the complainant again entered into an MoU with the company and again paid Rs 5.6 lakh, Rs 3.5 lakh and Rs 42 lakh on different occasions for purchasing of a special suit for the scientist, his fees and chemicals required for the testing of RP which was scheduled in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. But at that time, the testing was not conducted by the accused persons stating that the sky was not clear.

Later on, the victim came to know that the said scientist is working with the accused persons for monthly salary of Rs 20,000. He further came to know that he has been cheated by a group of con artists.

After lodging the complaint and verifying documents, a Crime Branch team arrested Virender Mohan Brar who represented himself as MD of Rehan Metals, USA, which deals in antique/rare metals used by NASA in space research programmes along with his associate and son Nitin Mohan aka Baba Brar.

During investigation, alleged RP copper plate, alleged anti-radiation scientist suits of NASA and alleged anti-radiation chemical stickers have been recovered from the possession of the arrested accused persons along with laptop, printer, blank letter heads of Rehan Metals, USA, cheque books, fake ID cards of Rehan Metals and one Audi car.

Brar, was running a motor workshop during 1990s and used to assist his father but was unable to generate good income. Later, he started looking for new avenues of easy income and he started cheating people on pretext of buying rare and antique object like magic mirror, rice puller, dual headed snakes, Naagmani etc.