Summary
Police in Uttar Pradesh say Rajkumar Rajbhar (alias Raju), 38, hatched a plot on May 30, 2025, to stage his own death. He held a goat funeral in Ghazipur, used an AI-generated image showing a body on a funeral pyre (and orchestrated images of a funeral procession and final rites), and then procured a death certificate from the Mau Municipal Council which he submitted to a court to try to prove his death before going into hiding; investigators later uncovered the scheme and arrested him at Mau, and a case was registered at Kotwali Nagar police station for allegedly procuring forged documents.