<p>Hapur (UP): Two <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/delhi">Delhi</a>-based traders were arrested here after they allegedly tried to cremate a mannequin instead of a human body as part of an elaborate plot to fraudulently claim insurance money worth Rs 50 lakh to pay a debt, police said on Friday.</p>.<p>The bizarre sequence unfolded on Thursday when four men reached Brijghat here in a Haryana-registered car with what they claimed was a corpse. They bought ghee and other items required for the last rites and quietly placed the "body" on a pyre.</p>.<p>However, their nervous behaviour caught the attention of Nitin, a municipal employee present at the cremation ghat. When he pulled the sheet covering the "body", he found that it was actually a mannequin on the pyre. He immediately alerted the municipal authorities, police said.</p>.Delhi crime: Too drunk to dispose off body, man leaves partner's corpse in car after killing her.<p>After receiving information about the incident, a police team rushed to the spot and recovered the car of the accused along with three mannequins. Two of the accused -- Kamal Somani and his associate Ashish Khurana, both residents of Jain Colony in Delhi's Uttam Nagar -- were arrested. Two of their associates managed to escape, police said.</p>.<p>During interrogation, Somani, a textile trader, confessed that he had a debt of Rs 50 lakh and had been depressed for months.</p>.<p>"To repay the amount, he devised an elaborate scheme. He obtained the Aadhaar and PAN cards of Anshul, the brother of his employee Neeraj, on the pretext of some paperwork, took out a Rs 50 lakh Tata AIA insurance policy in Anshul's name nearly a year ago, and had been paying the premiums regularly," said Circle Officer Stuti Singh.</p>.<p>The plan was to send Anshul out of town, pass the mannequin off as his body, cremate it to obtain an official receipt from the cremation ground, secure a death certificate, and then claim the insurance payout, police said.</p>.<p>Police used Somani's phone to video call Anshul, who was in Prayagraj. He told police he had no idea his death was being staged at Brijghat, they said.</p>.<p>Circle Officer Singh said it was a case of insurance fraud.</p>.<p>"An investigation is under way and efforts are on to trace the absconding suspects," she said. </p>
<p>Hapur (UP): Two <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/delhi">Delhi</a>-based traders were arrested here after they allegedly tried to cremate a mannequin instead of a human body as part of an elaborate plot to fraudulently claim insurance money worth Rs 50 lakh to pay a debt, police said on Friday.</p>.<p>The bizarre sequence unfolded on Thursday when four men reached Brijghat here in a Haryana-registered car with what they claimed was a corpse. They bought ghee and other items required for the last rites and quietly placed the "body" on a pyre.</p>.<p>However, their nervous behaviour caught the attention of Nitin, a municipal employee present at the cremation ghat. When he pulled the sheet covering the "body", he found that it was actually a mannequin on the pyre. He immediately alerted the municipal authorities, police said.</p>.Delhi crime: Too drunk to dispose off body, man leaves partner's corpse in car after killing her.<p>After receiving information about the incident, a police team rushed to the spot and recovered the car of the accused along with three mannequins. Two of the accused -- Kamal Somani and his associate Ashish Khurana, both residents of Jain Colony in Delhi's Uttam Nagar -- were arrested. Two of their associates managed to escape, police said.</p>.<p>During interrogation, Somani, a textile trader, confessed that he had a debt of Rs 50 lakh and had been depressed for months.</p>.<p>"To repay the amount, he devised an elaborate scheme. He obtained the Aadhaar and PAN cards of Anshul, the brother of his employee Neeraj, on the pretext of some paperwork, took out a Rs 50 lakh Tata AIA insurance policy in Anshul's name nearly a year ago, and had been paying the premiums regularly," said Circle Officer Stuti Singh.</p>.<p>The plan was to send Anshul out of town, pass the mannequin off as his body, cremate it to obtain an official receipt from the cremation ground, secure a death certificate, and then claim the insurance payout, police said.</p>.<p>Police used Somani's phone to video call Anshul, who was in Prayagraj. He told police he had no idea his death was being staged at Brijghat, they said.</p>.<p>Circle Officer Singh said it was a case of insurance fraud.</p>.<p>"An investigation is under way and efforts are on to trace the absconding suspects," she said. </p>