Fraudster posed as family’s missing son for 41 YEARS: Conman, now 62, took on identity of wealthy Indian landlord’s teenage son four years after the boy had vanished
- Dayanand Gosai approached Kameshwar and Ramsakhi Singh in 1981 claiming to be their only son, teenager Kanhaiya Singh, who went missing four years before
- He has now been found guilty of fraud for deceiving the wealthy Indian family
- Even during his trial he tried to dupe the court, by producing fake ‘death certificate’ for himself to show he could not be himself, but , the missing son
A 62-year-old man has been found guilty of conning a wealthy family into believing he was their missing teenage son for 41 years.
In 1981, Dayanand Gosai approached Kameshwar and Ramsakhi Singh, who lived in Nalanda, Bihar district, in the north east of India, to claim he was their only son, teenager Kanhaiya Singh, who had gone missing four years earlier.
Within 15 years of meeting the family, both Kameshwar and Ramsakhi passed away, and as the ‘heir’ to their fortune, Gosai inherited land and properties of the Singh family, later selling them to make his own wealth.
When approached by Gosai years after his son went missing, heartbroken Mr Kameshwar, who was considered to be one of the wealthiest landlords in the region, took Gosai into the family and ignored his wife and five daughters who were suspicious of the then 21-year-old.
Mrs Singh and her daughters pointed out that Gosai did not have the same childhood scar of Kanhaiya, also failing to answer any questions they put to him to identify if it really was their loved one.
According to a local journalist who knows the family, Gosai also could not recognise any family members in photo albums.
Dayanand Gosai, 62, pictured, has been found guilty of conning a wealthy family into believing he was their missing teenage son for 41 years after approaching them in their home town of Nalanda, Bihar, India
Speaking to The Times, Ram Ravi Prakash said: ‘They showed him family albums, he couldn’t identify anyone.
‘They made him meet his earlier teachers and tutors, he couldn’t name them. They asked him about family events, likes and dislikes and he had no clue.’
Gosai’s presence divided the family, with Mr Singh and other relatives determined to keep his ‘son’ and insisting that he was genuine in his claims, allowing him to live in the home which sits on 50 acres of the family’s land.
Mr Singh’s wife Ramsakhi persisted and went to court to evict Gosai later in the same year he appeared in their lives, but the case went on for decades.
Rajesh Kumar, Mrs Singh’s lawyer, said that judges died or were transferred elsewhere, witnesses died, the pandemic got in the way of proceedings.
During which time, the five daughters got married, and Gosai too, who also now has two children. In 1990, father Kameshwar died, and in 1995, Ramsakhi died.
Kumar added: ‘Till her dying breath, she said this liar was not her son.’
Following her mother’s death, eldest daughter Vidya Singh decided to pick up where her mother left off with her case of evicting Gosai after police closed it – but it took years to allow her permission to be plaintiff, even going as far as the Supreme Court.
The evidence built up against Gosai, but despite a court ruling in 2019, the 62-year-old refused to take a DNA test.
Even during his trial, before being convicted of fraud at Nalanda District Court (pictured), he continued to try and dupe the court, by producing a fake ‘death certificate’ for himself to show he could not possibly be himself, but instead, the missing son
This week, he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for forgery, and another six months on account of criminal conspiracy for pretending to be Kanhaiya and targeting the wealthy family.
Even during his trial, before being convicted of fraud at Nalanda District Court, he continued to try and dupe the court, by producing a fake ‘death certificate’ for himself to show he could not possibly be himself, but instead, the missing son.
The certificate was found to be forged.
Kumar Singh, eldest daughter Vidya’s husband, said on the verdict: ‘All she said to me was that she wished her mother were alive to see that the truth did finally prevail.’
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