The CBC article doesn't go into enough details about Cotten's death, but it was almost certainly a fake too. The Indian state which wrote his death certificate

The CBC article doesn't go into enough details about Cotten's death, but it was almost certainly a fake too. The Indian state which wrote his death certificate is apparently infamous for faking deaths in exchange for bribe money, e.g. for insurance fraud. Nobody saw the body. There was so much shady stuff that went down.