RTI activist thought to be dead arrested in Bangalore


Bangalore, Aug 29 (PTI): A married Right to Information activist, who was presumed to have died in a car fire in Noida, has been arrested in Bangalore where he had been staying with another woman, a senior police official said.

Senior Superintendent of Police Preetinder Singh told newspersons that the activist Chandra Mohan Sharma, an AAP worker, was apprehended after police tracked the mobile phone of the woman he was staying with in Bangalore.

According to Singh, Sharma told the police that he was having strained relations with his wife Savita, a social worker.

He had kidnapped a mentally-challenged person and placed him inside a car and set the vehicle ablaze. "Chandra Mohan Sharma left his wallet and dress in the car so that the body could be identified as that of him. This he did to fake his own death.

"Thereafter, he went to Bangalore and had been living there with another woman he loved", the SSP said adding a team of Noida police arrested him in Bangalore and brought him to Noida.

A body was recovered from the burnt car a few months ago. Police had identified it as that of Chandra Mohan Sharma.

His wife noticed that a woman living in the neighbourhood of her husband too had gone missing from the area after a month of her husband's "death". She informed the police about this, the SSP said.

Police investigation found that that woman was having contacts with Chandra Mohan Sharma. Thereafter, her phone was put under electronic surveillance which helped police trace the woman in Bangalore where Sharma was also found with her, said Singh.

 


How Chandra Mohan Sharma faked his death

Noida, Aug 29 (Zee News): Once a 'dead' man, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member and Right to Information (RTI) activist Chandra Mohan Sharma in now very much alive and an accused in a murder case.

Sharma and his girlfriend were arrested from Bangalore on Tuesday, and the RTI activist was produced before the media on Thursday. He has been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including murder of a mentally-unstable man.

Police said Sharma had faked his death as he was not happy with his married life and wanted to live with his girlfriend.

Sharma had been presumed dead in a car-blaze on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway on May 2 earlier this year.

At that time, Sharma's wife Savita had claimed that her husband – a resident of P-38 Alpha II, Greater Noida - was murdered by goons against whom he had raised issues through the RTI.

The police had investigated the case on the basis of Savita's complaint and found during the probe that a girl from the locality had also gone missing some days later after Sharma's 'death'.

The police, after putting the girl's mobile phone number on tracker, found that the same was active in Bangalore.

The Noida police than dispatched three teams to Bangalore where the two were found living together. The duo were then arrested and brought back to Delhi on Thursday.

Revealing further details, the police said Sharma had taken help from his brother-in-law to fake his death.

Sharma, who was an employee at Honda Siel, told police that he was unhappy with his family life and decided to fake his death in order to assume a different identity and start living with his girlfriend from the neighbourhood - an unmarried woman.

Sharma had narrated his family problems to his brother-in-law Videsh and told him that if his death was staged, Savita would get a job at Honda Siel and money from insurance policies that he had, Noida SSP Preetinder Singh was quoted as saying by leading English daily.

“Sharma found a mentally-unstable man who used to roam in the same area and became friendly with the man. On May 1, the 38-year-old bought three litres of petrol. He took the unidentified man to the car and, with Videsh’s help, strangulated the man using a belt. The dead man was then put on the driver’s seat before setting the car on fire,” Singh said further.

The AAP member then left for Bangalore in a train.

However, after living in Bangalore with the woman for a few days Sharma realised that he was unable to fulfil his daily needs. He then thrice called the girl's family from a PCO between August 9 and 13 saying the missing woman had been spotted near Tirupati and that they should take her back.

“Three police teams were sent to Bangalore who found out that a man in Honda uniform had made the calls. CCTV footage provided the man’s photo. When we scanned the database of the nearest Honda plant, we found that a man identical to Sharma was working there,” said Singh.

The suspected man identified himself as Nitin Sharma, claiming he was from Hisar in Haryana but the police nailed the lie after discovering a tattoo on his hand with his wife’s name.

  

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    See AAPtards..apna bivi aur girlfrnd ko sambhal nahi paye aur nikle desh sambhal ne....

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  • Navin Shetty, Manipal/Bahrain

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Real leader never accept credit for the success, but always claim responsibility for the failure. Modiji took responsibility whatever failure happened in his tenure either in Gujarat or as PM of India. Can you give a single example AK took responsibility or your Madam for whatsoever happened in their dictatorship?, Why leaders like AK or SG or RG shifting the blames to their peers and make them responsible? To be a great leader one should have courage not escapist like AK.

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  • Indian, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Escapist is far better than Corrupt, Criminal, Communal etc etc like BJP.....

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  • Rita, Germany

    Sat, Aug 30 2014

    @ Indian Mangalore,None of them better than the other but all in one.Rapist,criminalist or murderer escape ,run away to hide themselves to escape the arm of the justice.cowards .

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  • Dr S Kamath , Mumbai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    AAP ka Bhanda Fat gaya

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    See this type of people are tried to run a country...

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Narco analysis test shall be carried out on him & should punish if it is true. ..

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  • stan, dubai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Chandra Mohan Sharma faked his death and found in Bangalore with
    neighborhood girl area after a month of her husband's "death". Please investigate first how her husband died. May this is also planned murder

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  • Navin Shetty, Bahrain/Manipal

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Faking things - one should learn from AK and his team.

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  • Indian, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Why are you blaming AK..... If any BJP members does same thing then can you blame MODI (FEKU)????. If he is proved wrong then punish him as per law.

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  • R Mallar, Kasaragod/ Dubai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    Moral of the story - Kill your mobile when you fake your death or run away from home.

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  • H C Devadiga, mangalore

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    good story for crime patrol, will b a hit

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  • SAMANYA JANA, mangalore

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    RTI Activist, AAP member and now found to be a dreaded criminal. very lethal combination for the society. Hope AK will take note of the same. Anna Hajare did a good thing to disown bunch of such people and enjoy his old age gracefully.

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  • Indian, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    If BJP activists make mistake can u blame MODI?????

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  • JNB, Bejai

    Fri, Aug 29 2014

    What a Indian TV culture?
    to get himself new life!!
    he took someones life too ??

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