What was meant to look like a solemn funeral at Uttar Pradesh's Hapur’s Garhmukteshwar Ganga ghat unravelled into a full-blown spectacle when locals discovered that the “dead body” being cremated was not a human at all, but a plastic mannequin wrapped in a shroud.
Within minutes, the drama spiralled, the crowd erupted, and two men attempting the fake cremation were caught on the spot and handed over to the police.
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