Cantt Police Probe Alleged Use of Child’s Identity in

Cantt police have opened an investigation after a Varanasi woman alleged that forged records were created around her minor son’s identity and then used to take control of property belonging to her late first husband. The FIR was registered on a court’s direction following an application by Sangeeta Bhardwaj.

Bhardwaj told the court that she married Anoop Kumar of Daulatpur, Paharia, in 2009 and had two children. After her husband died in 2016, she faced serious personal and financial difficulty. She remarried in 2017 and moved with the children to her new home in the Jansa area, according to the complaint.

Her elder son, Samar Bhardwaj, later began living with his grandfather in 2018. After the grandfather died in 2021, the complainant alleges that her former husband’s brother, Amit Kumar, sought control of the deceased man’s share of the family property. She claims residence, caste and related certificates were prepared showing Amit as the minor’s father.

The complaint further alleges that the same identity trail was used to place Amit’s name against the house in municipal records. Bhardwaj told the court that she was prevented from meeting her son, abused and threatened when she objected, and informed that the property had already been transferred.

These are serious allegations, but they remain unproven. A family property dispute can contain overlapping questions of guardianship, inheritance, residence and document fraud. Police must verify each record at its source rather than assume that one suspicious certificate proves the entire complaint.

The municipal mutation file will be crucial. Investigators should establish who applied, which supporting documents were submitted, whether notices went to other legal heirs and who approved the change. The issuing authorities for residence and caste certificates should preserve application forms, verification reports, photographs and digital logs.

The child’s welfare must stay separate from the contest over assets. Reporting should not expose his location or turn him into evidence in a public family fight. Any inquiry about parentage, guardianship or residence should follow the appropriate legal process with privacy safeguards.

Bhardwaj said she approached Cantt police on December 1 and again on December 24, 2025, before going to court. Station house officer Rajkishore Pandey confirmed that a case had been registered and an investigation was under way.

The case also tests how easily identity documents can be cross-linked without a genuine check. Digital certificates are valuable only when the verification beneath them is sound. A forged relationship entered once can migrate into municipal, school and property systems and become harder to unwind.

The FIR gives police authority to reconstruct that chain. The fairest outcome will come from original records, verified signatures and the lawful line of inheritance—not from which family member tells the more forceful story.