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Rice puller cheating -Kalady Police arrested accused on 06.08.17

Kalady police arrested a 36-year-old man on charges of duping several people by selling them a metal ‘device’ claimed to have ‘several magical properties’, including drawing rice grains. The accused, Madanamoksha Raju of Andhra Pradesh, had allegedly swindled several lakhs of rupees across Kerala and outside the state offering the ‘rice puller’. The accused used a fake identity card in the name of one John Milton to obtain a phone number. The number was later used to contact his targets. Accused has excellent communication skills, and lured people into buying the alloy of copper and iridium after telling people that the alloy was used by agencies like Nasa in space satellites for generating energy. He even told them that his Hyderabad-based company would buy back the metal at a higher price.