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An Indian activist who was thought to have died in a car fire near the capital, Delhi, has been found alive in the southern city of Bangalore.
Police said Chandra Mohan Sharma had "faked his death" to live with another woman.
Mr Sharma has now been arrested on suspicion of killing the man whose body was found in the charred car. Mr Sharma is a freedom of information activist and a member of the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party.
On 1 May, police said they had found the charred body of Mr Sharma in his burnt Chevrolet car in the suburb of Greater Noida.
Mr Sharma's relatives said he had been killed for exposing corruption and identified the body.
On 5 May, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that a vigil would be held in the city to demand an "investigation of murder of RTI [right to information] activist Chandra Mohan Sharma".
On Thursday, however, Mr Sharma was arrested in Bangalore, where he was working in a car factory under a new identity, and brought to Delhi.
'New life'
Senior police official Preetinder Singh told reporters that the 38-year-old married activist had "faked his death" by killing a homeless man in his car and setting the vehicle on fire with help from a relative, who has absconded.
He said Mr Sharma had done this to live with another woman who he had begun seeing in Delhi.
Police said he shaved off his hair to change his appearance and faked his papers to get a job in a car factory in Bangalore, where the couple had moved.
Mr Sharma has denied all the charges, reports say.
When unconfirmed media reports began appearing earlier this week about the likelihood of Mr Sharma being found alive in Bangalore, his wife Savita Sharma said she suspected that this was linked to a woman.
"There was a young woman in our locality who was in touch with my husband. She used to contact him on his private number, which was known to only a few people. After a month of his death she also went missing," Ms Sharma told Hindustan Times newspaper.
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Source - Wikipedia
Chandra Mohan Sharma (1976 - 1 May 2014) was an Indian activist, who had been active in using the Right to Information (RTI) act to fight against illegal encroachments of government land. He was known for his "crusade against the land mafia"in NOIDA and Delhi region.
He had been active for many years in the RTI movement and over the years had filed 300 RTI applications.In 2011, he had filed an RTI against illegal fireworks sales in Chandigarh.
He was one of early people to join the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement in 2011 and later the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In April 2014, he had filed an RTI case against the illegal encroachments on a temple land in Kasna village in Greater Noida. Apparently he received threats to his life due to this, and had filed a First Information Report on April 29, naming several persons for the threats.
Sharma who was an employee at Honda Cars India manufacturing unit at Greater Noida, in the maintenance department, had been living in Greater Noida for over 12 years.
Death
On the night 1 May 2014, Sharma left work around 11.30 pm for home. Subsequently when his family tried to contact him on his mobile phone, it appeared switched off. Later at around 12.30 am, police was informed, as he was found inside his burned car, on a desolate stretch near Eldeco Crossing in Greater Noida, with his body "charred beyond recognition" at the driver's seat. He was recognized with car license plate.
Sharma was 38 year old, and was survived his wife, a daughter and a son, besides his father who lives in Gurgaon.
Aftermath
According to police, the car windows and doors were locked, and they had to be broken open.A murder case has been filed against five people at Kasna police station. On May 2, the Aam Aadmi Party issued a public statement demanding a probe in his death, it also alledged laxity in police investigation.
With his death, it became the third incident in the last six months of an RTI activist being targeted in Noida and Greater Noida region.
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An Indian activist who was thought to have died in a car fire near the capital, Delhi, has been found alive in the southern city of Bangalore.
Police said Chandra Mohan Sharma had "faked his death" to live with another woman.
Mr Sharma has now been arrested on suspicion of killing the man whose body was found in the charred car. Mr Sharma is a freedom of information activist and a member of the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party.
On 1 May, police said they had found the charred body of Mr Sharma in his burnt Chevrolet car in the suburb of Greater Noida.
Mr Sharma's relatives said he had been killed for exposing corruption and identified the body.
On 5 May, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal tweeted that a vigil would be held in the city to demand an "investigation of murder of RTI [right to information] activist Chandra Mohan Sharma".
On Thursday, however, Mr Sharma was arrested in Bangalore, where he was working in a car factory under a new identity, and brought to Delhi.
'New life'
Senior police official Preetinder Singh told reporters that the 38-year-old married activist had "faked his death" by killing a homeless man in his car and setting the vehicle on fire with help from a relative, who has absconded.
He said Mr Sharma had done this to live with another woman who he had begun seeing in Delhi.
Police said he shaved off his hair to change his appearance and faked his papers to get a job in a car factory in Bangalore, where the couple had moved.
Mr Sharma has denied all the charges, reports say.
When unconfirmed media reports began appearing earlier this week about the likelihood of Mr Sharma being found alive in Bangalore, his wife Savita Sharma said she suspected that this was linked to a woman.
"There was a young woman in our locality who was in touch with my husband. She used to contact him on his private number, which was known to only a few people. After a month of his death she also went missing," Ms Sharma told Hindustan Times newspaper.
Source - Wikipedia
Chandra Mohan Sharma (1976 - 1 May 2014) was an Indian activist, who had been active in using the Right to Information (RTI) act to fight against illegal encroachments of government land. He was known for his "crusade against the land mafia"in NOIDA and Delhi region.
He had been active for many years in the RTI movement and over the years had filed 300 RTI applications.In 2011, he had filed an RTI against illegal fireworks sales in Chandigarh.
He was one of early people to join the Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement in 2011 and later the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In April 2014, he had filed an RTI case against the illegal encroachments on a temple land in Kasna village in Greater Noida. Apparently he received threats to his life due to this, and had filed a First Information Report on April 29, naming several persons for the threats.
Sharma who was an employee at Honda Cars India manufacturing unit at Greater Noida, in the maintenance department, had been living in Greater Noida for over 12 years.
Death
On the night 1 May 2014, Sharma left work around 11.30 pm for home. Subsequently when his family tried to contact him on his mobile phone, it appeared switched off. Later at around 12.30 am, police was informed, as he was found inside his burned car, on a desolate stretch near Eldeco Crossing in Greater Noida, with his body "charred beyond recognition" at the driver's seat. He was recognized with car license plate.
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| Security at India Gate, where AAP members had planned to hold the candlelight vigil on Monday. Police said they did not have permission to hold the protest there. (Praveen Khanna) |
Sharma was 38 year old, and was survived his wife, a daughter and a son, besides his father who lives in Gurgaon.
Aftermath
According to police, the car windows and doors were locked, and they had to be broken open.A murder case has been filed against five people at Kasna police station. On May 2, the Aam Aadmi Party issued a public statement demanding a probe in his death, it also alledged laxity in police investigation.
With his death, it became the third incident in the last six months of an RTI activist being targeted in Noida and Greater Noida region.
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