deceased) to his name, and founded Mritak Sangh, the Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People, to highlight other cases like his.
In order to apply for a bank loan, Lal Bihari visited the revenue office at Azamgarh district headquarters to get proof of identity, whereupon he learned that he was officially designated as dead.
His uncle had bribed an official to register him as dead, so that he would get the ownership of Bihari's ancestral land at Khalilabad, which measured less than an acre.
He formed Mritak Sangh, Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People, in the Azamgarh district.
In 2004, he sponsored fellow Mritak Sangh member Shivdutt Yadav when he attempted to contest the election against Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.