It sounds and looks extremely exaggerated! After all, how can a person fake his identity and make a fool outta people like this in real life? Impossible!
Well, not exactly!
Shesh Narain Shastri from Uttar Pradesh successfully did this not just for a couple of years but for 35 years straight!
At the age of 20, Shastri was convicted and sentenced to life for killing his neighbor in Majra village of Unnao district in 1982. He was out on bail a year later and has been conning the cops by faking his identity ever since.
He used to dress like a priest and kept changing his mobile number and location regularly all these years. The police, however, finally tracked him down using his mobile phone’s location.
“No one could give any specific information about Shesh Narain Shastri as he regularly changed his locations and also his cellphone numbers,” Station House Officer, Ajgain Police Station, Ajay Raj Verma told The Indian Express.
“In 1984, all other accused in the murder case were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but Shastri remained absconding and his trial is still pending,” the officer further said.
“Meanwhile, while collecting information about him, police came to know that Shastri, who worked as a farmer before his arrest, was booked for murder and rape of a girl in Barra police station of Kanpur district in 2013,” the report stated.