had been made, the Court declined to reweigh the evidence and the findings made in the courts below and dismissed Bibhabati Devi's appeal. Aftermath The same evening, when the claimant went to offer prayers, he suffered a stroke and died two days later. Funeral rites were performed on 13 August 1946. Bibhabati Devi later regarded this as a divinely ordained punishment for imposture. She later refused the inheritance (Rs. 800000) coming from the estate. Forensic significance A forensic study conducted on the dead body of the sadhu suggested that he was indeed the kumar: In popular culture Film Khan Ataur Rahman directed a 1966 Bangladeshi film titled Raja Sonyasi. In the same year, another Bangladeshi director named Raunak Chowdhury released a film on Bhawal king titled Bhawal Sonyasi. Uttam Kumar starred in a Bengali film as the Bhawal Sanyas in Sanyasi Raja directed by Pijush Bose in 1975; it was remade in Telugu in 1977 as Raja Ramesh. Shaheb Chattopadhyay starred in a Bengali TV serial as the Bhawal Sanyas in Sannyasi Raja in TV Channel Star Jalsha in 2017-18 Jisshu Sengupta starred in a Bengali film as the Bhawal Sanyas in Ek Je Chhilo Raja directed by Srijit Mukherjee in 2018. See also Tichborne case Bhawal Estate Zamindars of Bengal Baro-Bhuyan List of rulers of Bengal References Further reading Murad Fyzee – A Prince, Poison and Two Funerals: The Bhowal Sanyasi Case, English Edition Publishers (2003), External links The Legendary Tale of The Bhawal Sannyasi by Waqar A Khan, published on The Daily Star, 3 December 2018 Srimati Bibhabati Devi v Kumar Ramenda Narayan Roy and others (Fort William (Bengal)) (1946) UKPC 32 (30 July 1946) Decision in the HTML format History of Criminal Identification Bhawal Sannyasi case Fairy tale of Bhawal case in Bengali Impostors Bengal Presidency 1936 in British India