Boy claims rebirth in same family 5 times

When 16-year-old Ajay died in a road mishap earlier this week, he left behind a tale of intrigue, wonder and suspense.
The boy, a resident of Amarpur village in Kasganj district, had told his family that he was born into the same family five times between 1984 and 1993.
“Initially we thought he was spinning tales but as he grew up, he insisted that he had been born into the family for the fifth time. He said that his first birth in the family was in 1984 when he was born as my son. When he was merely 6 years old, a woman in the neighbourhood, who had no children, fed him poison in a ‘batasha’ (a local sweet) and he died. This was absolutely true and when he narrated this incident to us, we were shocked,” says Ajay’s grandmother Rambeti.
Ajay then told his family members that it his next birth he was born as a housefly, then as a bee and then as a snake. “In 1991, a snake had wandered into our courtyard and my mother-in-law had beaten it to death. Ajay said that he was the snake that had been killed by us,” says Rambeti.
Ajay was then born as a son to Rambeti’s daughter but when he was merely two years old, he choked to death while eating, ironically, ‘batasha’.
Finally, he was born as Ajay to Rambeti’s daughter-in-law in 1993.
“Ajay remembered each and every detail of his previous five births. We took him to every temple and every witch doctor in the region because he thought he was suffering from illusions but the things he would tell us could not be entirely disbelieved,” says Rambeti.
The family, which is yet to recover from Ajay’s death in a road accident earlier this week, is now wondering if the boy would return to their family once again. “He has not lived his full life in any one of the previous birth and we would like to pray for his salvation. We are consulting the priests and plan to hold a elaborate ‘puja’ so that our boy’s soul finally rests in peace,” says the grandmother.