A fake effigy made with wheat flour was taken out in a funeral procession in Madhya Pradesh Vidisha, after a 23-year-old woman, Kavita Kushwaha, eloped to marry her partner, Sanju Malviya, against her family’s wishes. After searching for her and approaching the police, the family traced her. She refused to return home, saying she had married by choice. Disowning her, the family decided to symbolically perform her last rites. Traditional funeral rituals were carried out before the fake body was c