Manduadih Registers FIR Alleging ₹40 Crore Property Grab of Late Doctor’s Estate

Manduadih police on Monday registered a wide-ranging property fraud case on a complaint by a retired naval officer who says a couple and their associates drained roughly ₹40 crore linked to his late brother’s estate and later threatened the family.

The complainant, Rai Ajay Kumar of Lahartara, is a retired Lieutenant Commander. In his account to police, his middle brother Rai Vimal Kumar had worked as a doctor in the United States, returned to India in 2017, and lived between the family’s ancestral house and Ambi Valley in Varanasi.

The FIR names six people and six unknown others. Those named are Kailash Damu Malkhede, Neeta Malkhede, Chandramohan Ramswaroop Bagga, Suyash Bhimrao Sitaphale, Simran Chandra Mohan Bagga and Vaibhav Devidas Ghugre. According to the complaint, Kailash and Neeta entered the doctor’s household on the pretext of care, mixed intoxicants into liquor, and then took control of bank accounts, debit cards, land papers, a laptop and mobile phones. The allegation continues that forged paperwork made them nominees on Kotak Mahindra Bank accounts, and that about ₹40 crore moved into their control while Rai Vimal Kumar was alive and after his death.

The complainant further alleges that on 28 August 2025 and again on 30 May 2026, accused persons entered the house, issued death threats and assaulted family members. Station house officer Digambar Upadhyay confirmed that the first information report has been registered on those lines and that investigation has begun.

Every element of the complaint — the alleged doping, the forged nominations, the ₹40 crore figure, and the later threats — remains unproven unless and until a court accepts the evidence. The accused are entitled to contest the claims. What Monday’s paperwork establishes is that Manduadih police have opened a named case on a retired officer’s written complaint about his late brother’s estate, and that the probe will now test bank trails, documents and the two alleged household confrontations.

Estate disputes involving returning NRIs and local caregivers are among the hardest crime stories to summarise without overclaiming. Manduadih’s FIR does not establish that ₹40 crore moved, only that the complainant alleges it. Bank statements, nominee forms, medical records and the two alleged confrontation dates will have to be matched against that narrative. Naming six people and six unknowns widens the suspect list; it does not prove joint liability.

Rai Ajay Kumar’s naval background and his brother’s medical career are part of how he identified the family to police. They are not evidence of the fraud itself. Similarly, the Ambi Valley and ancestral-house details locate the alleged takeover; they do not decide who held lawful authority over accounts.

SHO Digambar Upadhyay’s confirmation matters for the public timeline: Monday, Manduadih, a registered case. From here the file moves through notices, document seizure requests and whatever arrests the evidence supports. Until then, the responsible line is the one the desk is using — an FIR alleging a massive estate grab, not a concluded finding that the grab succeeded.