Natwarlal was a Indian Con man who sold Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Rashtrapati Bhavan & Parliament of India Several times. Yes, he sold these famous & Valuable Monuments several times & even after such big frauds, the police could never keep him in captivity. Today in this blog we will read about Natwarlal the Conman of India.
Natwarlal was born on 1912 in Siwan , Bihar. His original name is Mitilesh Kumar Srivastava. He was the older of two brothers. Once time Natwarlal was sent by his neighbour to collect the bank draft. When he reached bank he tried to copy his neighbour’s signature & he successfully copied his neighbour’s Signature. That time he thaught he could act as a forgery. From that day he continued to withdraw money from his neighbour’s account for a few days. When his neighbour got the Idea, by then he withdrawn 1000 Rs. from the account. After finding out , he went to Calcutta , complete his Graduation from Commerce & he also started work in stock market as broker.
Once, President Dr. Rajendra Prasad came to the neighbouring village of Natwarlal. Where Natwarlal got an opportunity to show his art to the President. He copied President’s signature infront of President. The President Dr. Rajendra Prasad was very impressed by his art & offered him a job. But he refused to take the job. Because now he had a big weapon as the signature of the President. By now he had cheated many small but now he was thinking to doing something big. After that he cheated many native & Foreign Rich people by copying the signature of the President. In his lifetime he Sold the Taj Mahal 3 times, the Red Forte 2 times, The Rashtrapati Bhavan once & the Parliament of India once & that time there were also MP’s on it. He than 50 Pseudonym Natwarlal name was one of them. He search Rich people & in disguise would go to them & say them that the Government of India wants to sell this monument. Then he would make fake papers of that monument & signed these paper with President’s fake signature & sold that monument.
He was arrested 9 times in his life by police. But every time he successfully escaped from the police. In 1966 he was last time arrested by police at the age of 84 years. That time he using wheelchair but therefore he was successful to escape from the police at New Delhi Railway station & then he never seen after. In 2009, a petition was filled by Natwarlal’s lawyer in the court saying that Natwarlal died on 25 July 2009, so the pending cases against him should be dismissed. But no firm evidence or government documents are available about his death.
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Vishal Thakur
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Vishal Thakur 