Archive · 28 Nov 2025
Traders Arrested for Attempting to Cremate Mannequin for Insurance Fraud
In a small town in Uttar Pradesh, two men from Delhi tried to burn a plastic dummy on a funeral pyre.
They wanted to pretend the dummy was a person who had died so they could get Rs 50 lakh from an insurance policy.
People nearby noticed something was wrong because the 'body' felt too light.
When they looked, they saw it was not a real person.
The police took the two men away to ask them why they did this.
The police think it was a plan to trick the insurance company.
The men had a big debt and wanted the money to pay it off.
One of the men had taken out an insurance policy in the name of someone else without their knowledge.
Two Delhi-based traders attempted to cremate a mannequin to claim Rs 50 lakh insurance fraudulently.
The bizarre sequence unfolded when four men arrived with what they claimed was a corpse, but it was actually a mannequin.
A municipal employee noticed the suspicious behavior and alerted the authorities.
Two of the accused, Kamal Somani and Ashish Khurana, were arrested, while two others escaped.
The plan involved obtaining an official receipt from the cremation ground, securing a death certificate, and then claiming the insurance payout.
- Who
- Two Delhi-based traders, Kamal Somani and Ashish Khurana, and local villagers
- What
- Attempted to cremate a mannequin instead of a human body to claim insurance fraudulently
- When
- Thursday afternoon
- Where
- Brijghat, Garhmukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh
- Why
- To fraudulently claim Rs 50 lakh insurance to pay off a debt
Fraudsters
Law Enforcement
Motive
Fraudsters
Attempted to claim Rs 50 lakh insurance by faking a death
Law Enforcement
Investigating the fraud and seeking to apprehend all involved
- Location
- Brijghat, Garhmukteshwar, Uttar Pradesh
- Date
- Thursday afternoon
- Number of Detained
- 2 youths
- Suspected Motive
- Fraud or criminal conspiracy
- Action Taken
- Police detained the two youths
- Insurance Amount
- Rs 50 lakh
- Accused Names
- Kamal Somani and Ashish Khurana
- Accused Residence
- Jain Colony, Uttam Nagar, Delhi
