Monday morning, Assam Police secured the accused on transit remand.
In 1997, Vastu expert Khushdeep Bansal made headlines after claiming that the Parliament House library had "architectural defects" and that this was why governments fell. Nearly 30 years later, his name has come up again, this time in connection with massive fraud amounting to Rs 65 crore.
Khushdeep Bansal and his brother were arrested on Monday in Delhi by a joint team of the Assam Police and the Delhi Police. The Counter Intelligence Unit (CI) of the Delhi Police Special Cell was involved in the arrest.
Both were taken almost immediately to Assam, where they face charges in what is called the Rs 65 crore Autonomous Council scam. The scam involves the son of a Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh.
Kamal Sabarwal, the owner of the Delhi-based Sabarwal Trading Company, filed a complaint against Bansal. Bansal reportedly told the Delhi Police that all he had done was to introduce an individual to Kamal Sabarwal. Simultaneously, Assam Police claim that all the accused collaborated in orchestrating the elaborate scam that has now come to the forefront.
Besides his Vaastu consultancy, Bansal is a consultant on various state government projects and a strategic advisor to eminent businessmen and industrialists.
In 1997, he gained notoriety for his claim that the architectural defects of the Parliament House library were causing governmental instability. According to him, the solution lay in his expertise, which involved placing copper wires underground between the Parliament and the library building, thereby "restoring balance" and allowing governments to complete their tenures without facing premature collapses.