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A man carries a fan in the back of a cycle rickshaw, its blades spinning in the wind; another pedals his bicycle with a single watermelon fastened to its back.

Vinod Jha, 42, a cycle rickshaw driver who changed to an electric model two years ago, said that he got more business now.

The police theory is that in Raipur, he took a cycle rickshaw and then a tuk-tuk to visit two courier services before deciding on one located in a basement.

Farida Begum’s face lights up as she talks about the day, four years ago, when she and her husband brought home a cycle rickshaw.

In the past two years, sons of a railway station baggage handler, a truck driver and a cycle rickshaw driver studied in Kota and made it to top engineering and medical colleges.