UP man arrested for faking death with AI-generated goat image to evade court
· India · Hindustan Times, NDTV
Rajkumar Rajbhar alias Raju, 38, of Mau district in Uttar Pradesh allegedly staged his own death on May 30, 2025, in Ghazipur to avoid repaying money collected for stock market investing. Police said Rajbhar held a funeral for a goat and used AI to generate an image of a body on a funeral pyre, submitting a forged death certificate from the Mau Municipal Council to a court. The accused is an accused in the 2016 murder of Yogesh Singh and had collected funds from prominent individuals across several cities. Acting on intelligence, the Kotwali Nagar police, with the SOG and surveillance team, arrested him near Khwajajahanpur locality on Sunday morning.
Why it matters
The accused evaded legal proceedings and avoided repaying funds collected under the pretext of stock market investing, defrauding prominent individuals across multiple cities. His arrest underscores the growing misuse of AI tools in criminal fraud and the vulnerability of judicial processes to forged digital evidence.
Read the original report — Hindustan Times
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