Recently, a case in India shocked the world.
A beggar pretended to be the son of a rich man. Starting in 1981, he used this identity for 41 years.
He used this status to marry Bai Fumei, inherit the inheritance, squander the rich man's property, and live a prosperous life.
It was not until this year that the Indian court finally made the final judgment...
The story begins in February 1977.
In Murgawan Village, Nalanda District, eastern Bihar, India, there is a well-known rich man named Zamindar.
He is the richest man in this land, everyone knows and knows it.
Fifty years ago, he had tens of millions of assets and hundreds of acres of land. His brother worked in the Indian Federal House, and he himself was the head of the local Five Elders Association.
(Wu Lao Hui = a five-person village elders’ church in India. It is the core of rural society. It has executive, legislative, judicial powers and controls almost all aspects of village community life. The way to decide issues is through mutual interaction among its members. Discussion and negotiation)
The rich man has two marriages and a total of eight children: seven sisters, and the only brother.
The preference for sons over daughters is very serious in Indian society, but as long as he has this son, he is considered to be able to pass on the family.
This important and only son naturally became the rich man's favorite child and the heir to his millions of assets, named Kanhaiya.
However, on February 20, 1977, 16-year-old Kanhaiya left home to take the high school entrance examination.
He never came back.
This incident caused a great sensation in the local area - the rich family fell into depression because of it.
At that time, the rich man was already old, and his wife would no longer have the chance to have children. This son was too important to them.
The rich family submitted a missing report to the police and put pressure on the police to search for Kanhaiya. However, all efforts to find Kanhaiya were in vain.
One day, two days, three days.
one month, two months, three months.
The wealthy family was so desperate that they even found a secret sect master to figure out where his son was.
And the master told him:
"Your son is still alive and will 'appear' soon."
The rich couple held on to such hope and fell asleep in pain every day, hoping that they would be able to see when they opened their eyes the next day. Until his son returns home safe and sound.
However, the master was wrong.
For four years, there was no news from Kanhaiya.
As a result, the rich man suffered from severe depression . His vision was no longer clear due to excessive tears, and the whole family was enveloped in an atmosphere of pain...
Until September 20, 1981.
In September 1981, a man in his 20s came to a village only 15 kilometers away from the rich man's home.
He wore a monk's robe and came to this village by singing and alms.
As soon as he arrived at this place, he told the locals.
"I am the missing son of the rich man in Mulgawan Village."
The young man claimed that he was taken care of by a monk and saint four years after leaving home and has now found him. He produced a letter that matched Kanhaiya’s notes, which also gave credibility to his words.
Everyone knows that the rich man's son is missing, and knows that the rich man is offering a high reward to anyone who can bring his son back.
So when this "missing son" showed up, word spread like wildfire.
Everyone in the nearby village knew it, and everyone rushed to send news to the rich man's family: Your son is back! Your son is back!
Four years have passed, from the age of 16 to the age of 20, people will change a lot.
The villagers who went to deliver the good news told the rich man: "This young man must be your son, he has just grown up."
When the rich man heard the news, he immediately went to the village. Under the crowd, Look at his "son".
When he saw the child, the rich man was silent.
He did not show great excitement, but said to the surrounding onlookers:
"My eyes are no longer good, I can't see him clearly."
"If you all say that he is my son, I will Leave him alone..."
He took the young man, as Kanhaiya, back to his home.
Four days later, the rich man’s wife received the news and rushed home in a hurry.
However, when she just returned to the village and saw this young man, she started crying like crazy.
"He is not my son! He doesn't look like him, and there is a scar on the left side of Kanhaiya's head. This man doesn't..."
"He can't even recognize his teacher, how could he be my son?" "
However, no matter what she said, the rich man had no "doubt" at all and firmly believed that this man was his missing son.
The rich man was very happy that his son was back home and his physical condition was gradually improving.
But the rich wife still sheds tears every day.
The wife discovered that the young man wrote a letter to an address, and then some people came to talk to the "son" in a language she did not understand. The "son" gave those people a lot of money.
This became the last straw for my wife.
After two months of living together, his wife came to the police station and filed a lawsuit: He was an imposter! He is not my son at all!
After his wife filed a lawsuit, the young man was briefly arrested and spent a month in jail.
However, what is desperate is that the rich man personally came forward and released his "son" on bail.
So this matter was delayed like this.
During the next forty years, this young man lived with the name Kanhaiya.
As Kanhaiya, as the son of a rich man, he naturally became the heir to millions of assets in this family.
A year later, the rich man arranged a marriage for him - and the other party was also of the same high caste as the rich man himself, and they were "well-matched". The two had two sons and three daughters.
He also went to college as Kanhaiya and studied for a bachelor's degree in English, politics, philosophy .
In this way, he used the identity of Kanhaiya to survive.
He used his identity as Kanhaiya to participate in politics, pay taxes and obtain a firearms license.
He used Kanhaiya's identity, registered his fingerprints, and sold nearly a hundred acres of property belonging to a wealthy family.
In 1990, the rich man passed away.
In 1995, the rich man’s wife also passed away.
As for this "imposter" case, there has been no verdict for decades.
This young man, regarded as "Kanhaiya", has inherited the legacy of a rich man.
He owns his own villa, lives with his wife and children, and sells other former assets of the rich man, living a very prosperous life.
From left to right: "Kanhaiya", the daughter of "Kanhaiya", the sitting rich man, the wife standing behind the rich man
However, the rich man's sisters are not willing to recognize this younger brother.
"Until her mother died, she was unwilling to admit that he was her son."
"Her last words were still, 'Someone took advantage of my husband's poor health and declining eyesight to hatch a conspiracy to seize our property!' ..."
"If he is really our brother, why did he firmly refuse to provide his DNA sample to prove his identity?"
Later, the daughters of the rich took this case that had been dragged out for decades? , went to the Supreme Court again.
Finally, the case was reopened.
Over more than 40 years, more than a dozen judges have handled this case, and countless people have tried this case.
- This case should not have been so difficult, because just a DNA sample comparison showed that the young man and his sisters were not related by blood.
But this person has always refused to provide it.
(son of "Kanhaiya")
One of the lawyers pursuing the matter was a real friend of Kanhaiya.
"We grew up together and played together. Kanhaiya was a timid, shy and amiable child. When he disappeared, I cried for him for a long time."
"When this man appeared four years later , He doesn't look like Kanhaiya at all! "
" But his father insisted that this is his missing son... So, what can we do? "
This lawyer finally locked up a 100 with the police. Villages kilometers away.
In that village, they found records of a man named "Dayanand Gossain" .
Gossain was born in a poor peasant family and was the youngest of four sons - born around 1964.
said it was approximate because the date of birth on each of his identity certificates was different, and even his family members no longer remembered his age.
The younger son made a living by singing and begging. In 1981, the younger son left the village and never came back.
At that time, Gosein was actually married, but he abandoned his wife and became the son of a wealthy family.
Everyone in the village knows this gossip - but it doesn't mean anything.
The wife accepted this reality and remarried someone else.
Maybe someone had gone to inform the rich man, maybe not, but in the end the rich man's attitude towards his "son" did not change, and he accepted the replacement and became his son.
Finally, in February this year, the case was heard again, and 44 consecutive days of uninterrupted hearings were held.
In court, "Kanhaiya" produced a copy of Gossain's death certificate in an attempt to prove that he was not this person.
However, the judge found that the certificate stating Gossein's death in 1982 was actually "issued" in May 2014 - and there was no death record at all in the official files.
Even the judge was speechless by this action of "Kanhaiya": "In order to prove that you are Kanhaiya, you let Gossain commit suicide because of this identity."
Until the end, "Kanhaiya" still refused to fulfill his obligation to produce DNA evidence to prove that he was the real Kanhaiya.
In the end, the court sentenced him to seven years in prison and denied his status as "Kanhaiya" Identity.
But... "Kanhaiya" said:
"I did not impersonate anyone through deception and I never claimed that I was the lost son of a rich man.
It was he who accepted me as his son and took me home. "
In a sense, what he said was not completely wrong.
The rich man really didn't know that this person who suddenly appeared four years later was not his son?
The rich man's wife stayed until her death They are all trying desperately to accuse him. There are so many obvious doubts that even outsiders can see.
However, the rich man has been hiding the identity of his son, and even left the inheritance in the end. Gave it to him.
This is probably not the last foolish judgment of his lifelong reputation, nor is it a moment of confusion as a father after losing his beloved son...
But as "Kanhaiya" said, in their sight The moment they met, they made a deal.
"Kanhaiya" pretended to be the son of a real rich man in exchange for a happy life in the future.
And the rich man agreed to the deal - so he could live in the countryside. Obtain an heir of his own.
The important thing about the heir is not the blood, but the name.
All the surrounding villagers watching the recognition of father and son are witnesses of this transaction, recognizing the validity of this "father-son relationship". Sex.
Therefore, it is no longer important whether he is the real Kanhaiya...
Perhaps, this is the truth behind this 41-year impostor rich second generation...
