In December 1983 a boy named Titu Singh was born in a village near Agra. At the age of four he began to insist that his name was Suresh Verma, and that his wife Uma and his two children lived in Agra and were owners of a radio shop. He begged his present parents to take him back home and continued to reject them as his real parents. The entire family was tired with the intense behaviour of the boy, who insisted on being called Suresh and continually asked to go to Agra. He also talked about having been murdered by two men. He could clearly remember what had happened to him:

 

One day as he had arrived home in his car and had sounded his horn so that his wife would open the gate, two men came running towards him and had shot him in the head. He knew the names of the two men. The one that had fired the shot was a businessman called Sedick Johaadien.

 

During a stay in Agra, Titus’s older brother went to find out whether there really was a radio shop with the name his younger brother had mentioned. To his amazement he actually found a radio shop with the name ‘Suresh radio shop’. He went in and asked to see Suresh Verma. He was told that Suresh had been the owner of the shop but had died several years ago. When he asked for more information about the owner’s cause of death, he was advised to go and visit the deceased man’s widow Uma Verma.

 

Uma Verma told him that her husband had been shot in front of their house after returning home in his car. No one knew who had shot him and therefore the murder had been unsolved.

 

Titu’s brother then informed Uma that his little brother claims to be her deceased husband. He told her everything that Titu had talked about at home. Suresh’s widow now insisted on going to see the boy herself. She also told the rest of her family about this incident, so Suresh’s parents and his three brothers all decided to join her.

 

When Titu saw his parents and his wife he was so happy he ran up to them and hugged them all. Then he drummed on a stool with his hands to vent his joy just like Suresh used to do when he was a child. A decision was made with his parent’s permission to take Titu to Agra to confirm his past life memories.

 

Once they had arrived there his brothers wanted him to show them the way to the radio shop. They tried to mislead him on purpose, but the four-year-old was not fooled. Even when they told the driver to drive faster as they were approaching the shop, the boy suddenly shouted, “Stop! This is where my shop is!” After the boy had recognised several things from his past, his family was completely convinced that Titu really was their previously murdered son Suresh reborn. When Professor Chatdah from the University of Delhi heard of this incident he immediately showed great interest in the case. He visited Suresh’s widow Uma and asked her what it was that had finally convinced her that this boy really was her deceased husband reborn. She said that when she described an incident that only she and her husband knew anything about, Titu was able to remember it clearly. It had been about Titu having given his wife a big bag of sweets when they were out on a picnic.

 

Professor Chatdah must have told his colleague Professor Stevenson about this case, for Stevenson sent his colleague Antonia Mills to Agra to continue the research with Professor Chatdah. They wanted to clear their doubts regarding the authenticity of this case. All their research confirmed that they were dealing with an authentic case of reincarnation. Naturally they also inspected Titu’s head to see if he had any scars or birthmarks relating to the shot in the head that had killed him in his previous life. To their amazement they found a dent on the right side of his head which was precisely like the mark a bullet entering the skull would leave. On the other side of his head where the bullet had left the skull in his previous life, they found a star shaped scar. The wound would naturally have been bigger than the one on the other side of Suresh’s head, since a bullet leaving the skull would have made a larger hole than the one entering it.