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| Subject: Statist idiots: India's 'living dead' fight for resurrection, against reality denying statists Thu Jul 16, 2015 12:55 am | |
| For the last two years Ramjanam Mauriya has made countless journeys to Azamgarh magistrate's office in northern India, laden with stacks of documents to prove he is not a ghost.
"It's frustrating. I am alive, yet they say I am dead," Mauriya told AFP.
The 65-year-old is one of hundreds of people from the giant state of Uttar Pradesh who have been classified as deceased in official records as part of a plot by unscrupulous relatives to grab their land.
Mauriya alleges it was his brother who bribed officials to have him declared dead in order to gain a greater share of ancestral property.
Others have been fallen victim to similar scams by cousins, nephews or even their own sons who bribe local officials to falsify or destroy paperwork.
Nearly all the cases have been recorded in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, which also has a reputation for being one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden parts of the country.
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