New Delhi: Vastu expert Khushdeep Bansal, known for his comments on Parliament’s architecture in 1997, is reportedly embroiled in a fraud amounting to ₹ 65 crore, NDTV reported.
Bansal’s name emerged today nearly 30 years after he had claimed ‘architectural defects’ of Parliament House library as the cause of unstable governments at the time.
A joint team of the Assam Police and the Delhi Police along with the help of the Counter Intelligence Unit (CI) of the Delhi Police Special Cell arrested Khushdeep Bansal and his brother on Monday.
They are facing charges in Assam in the ₹ 65 crore Autonomous Council scam involving the son of a Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh.
Kamal Sabarwal, who is the owner of the Delhi-based Sabarwal Trading Company, lodged complaint against Bansal.
However, Bansal claimed he had only introduced an individual to Kamal Sabarwal.
Meanwhile, Assam Police said all the accused in the case ‘collaborated’ in the scam.
Alongside being a consultant for state government projects, Bansal is a strategic advisor to businessmen and industrialists.
In 1997, he linked what he said ‘architectural defects’ of the Parliament House library to governments falling before their tenures.
He suggested a solution of placing copper wires underground between the Parliament and the library building.
The copper wires, according to him, could help ‘restoring balance’ thus stopping premature collapses of governments.