The True Story of Shrivastava

Shrivastava enrolled in a bachelor in commerce to graduate course at Calcutta University, presumably after lying about his age. He got by long enough to meet and befriend a businessman, Seth Keshav Ram, who became his first mark. Shri told Seth that he had a relative who'd just come from Bombay with 200 bales of cloth that he wanted to sell on the black market for $450,000.