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Part Two: India's Most Famous Con-Man

Behind the Bastards

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The Story of Mithalesh Kumar Shrivastava

Mithalesh Kumar Shrivastava was born between 1912 and 1925 in a small village in Bihar, India. He spent 60 years conning people out of money by forging signatures on bank documents. His father beat him when he wasn't doing well in school so he fled his home for Calcutta where he lived as a lone man until the age of 30.

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