Overview
- Ghat workers at Brijghat in Hapur halted a pyre after discovering the shrouded 'corpse' was a plastic mannequin.
- Police detained Kamal Somani and Ashish Khurana at the site, seized their car, and recovered additional mannequins while two accomplices fled.
- Investigators say Somani confessed he was in debt of about Rs 50 lakh and planned to claim a Rs 50 lakh life-insurance policy taken in employee Anshul Kumar’s name.
- Officers contacted Anshul, who confirmed from Prayagraj that he was alive and unaware of the policy allegedly procured using his identity documents.
- An FIR has been registered and a probe is underway into possible links to wider insurance-fraud networks, with efforts continuing to trace the absconding suspects.