Mitul Trivedi — who provides tuition classes to students from 12th standard and onwards — claimed he designed Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander
The Surat Crime Branch on Wednesday nabbed tuition teacher Mitul Trivedi after he gave media interviews claiming that he is the ISRO scientist who designed Chandrayaan 3’s Vikram lander. Trivedi forged documents and a letter to further his claim. As per the police, Trivedi — who provides tuition classes to students from 12th standard and onwards — confessed that he drafted the letter because he felt that if he showed such a letter to the parents of students, he would have more students registering for his classes.
In support of his claim, Trivedi created a fake appointment letter of ISRO dated February 26, 2022 in which he claimed to be the assistant chairman of ISRO’s Ancient Science Application Department. He had forged another letter in which Trivedi claimed to be a “space research member” for ISRO’s upcoming project called “mercury force in space”.
Speaking to reporters, Surat Additional Commissioner of Police Sharad Singhal said that an application was submitted to the Commissioner of Police requesting an investigation into the matter.