MP: Youth held for faking Rs. 1.8 crore job at NASA, forging Obama's sign

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh police on Friday arrested a youth who claimed to be an employee of United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and seized an identity card that had forged signature of US President Barack Obama.

According to a report in NDTV, 20-year-old Ansar Khan from Kamlapur had told people in his town that he has been hired in NASA’s ‘Space and Food Research’ department and would receive an annual salary of Rs 1.85 crore.

A primary school in Kamlapur felicitated him during the Independence Day function attended by local politicians. His fraud was busted after he went to meet Dewas superintendent of police Shashikant Shukla to invite him for the event.

Shukla grew suspicious when he noticed the identity card hung around Khan’s neck and asked his officers to verify the claims of the youth, who is a class 12 pass out.

The investigation revealed that Khan had the identity card printed from a photo studio and he had also borrowed money from several people, saying he would return the loan soon after receiving his salary from NASA.

“Our SP got suspicious after seeing his (Ansar's) identity card and we started our investigation. He had even taken money from people for going to abroad," police officer B. S. Gaure said.

The photo studio owner told the police that Khan did not have a passport and he kept on “postponing his date of going to the US,” Gaure said. Khan has been booked for fraud and forgery, according to reports.