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Court in India has sentenced a man to prison for being found guilty of impersonating the son of a wealthy landlord for 41 years. How’s the story?
Journalist Soutik Biswas from BBC compiling the story of this extraordinary fraud that was too late to be tried.
Reported from BBCin February 1977, a teenage boy disappeared on his way home from school in the state Bihar in the east.
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Kanhaiya Singh, the only son of a rich and influential zamindar (landlord) in Nalanda district, returns from the second day of exams. His family made a missing persons report to the police.
Attempts to find Kanhaiya were futile. His elderly father was depressed and asked a shaman for help. A village shaman informs him that his son is still alive and will be found soon.
In September 1981, a man in his early 20s arrived in a village, almost 15 km from where Kanhaiya lived.
She wears saffron and can sing songs. He begged for a living. He told local residents that he was the ‘son of a prominent person’ from Murgawan, the missing child’s village.
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What happened next? Read the next page.
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