Hapur, Nov. 28 -- Two men were arrested from a cremation site in Hapur district of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly placing a dummy on the funeral pyre by passing it off as a human body on Thursday to get insurance money.
The startling incident unfolded at Brijghat in Garhmukteshwar, Hapur, when two men arrived with what they claimed was a body for cremation. Moments before the final rites were to begin, a man present at the site grew suspicious. When he removed the shroud, he was stunned to discover not a human body, but a dummy placed on the funeral pyre. Police quickly intervened and arrested the two individuals involved.
During interrogation, investigators uncovered that the entire conspiracy had been orchestrated for insurance money.
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