Surat: City-based Mitul Trivedi who had made false claims before the media that he had designed the Chandrayaan-3 lander is now on the run. His house is locked and his phone is switched off, claims a news report.
The probe into Mitul Trivedi’s claims was handed over to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Hetal Patel earlier. Mitul had reached the city police commissioner’s office but failed to submit any document to show that he was even remotely associated with India’s Space research organization ISRO.
After Chadrayaan-3’s success, Trivedi had told media persons in different interviews that he designed the lander of the moon mission in such a way that contrary to what happens at the time of the landing of the helicopter, the landing of Vikram lander would not result into the dust of the ground flying all over in the air.
Trivedi had one of the press interviews that claimed that he had been associated with ISRO since 2011 and NASA since 2013. He claimed he is a member of the design team for the year 2024 lunar human mission of NASA. He had claimed that he would be involved in the design project of Aditya L1 and Gaganyan Mission of ISRO. Trivedi also claimed that he did BSc and MSc in Physics and later went to Cambridge University to study Quantum Physics and went to Oxford University to study Anthropology and Vedant as Ph.D. student. He also claimed that he was a member of the Archaeological Survey of India(ASA). He claimed he could read 45 ancient languages.
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