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GreNo: RTI activist who faked his death given life term

He was tracked by the Noida police after the family of the woman he had eloped with, reported a missing complaint.

GreNo: RTI activist who faked his death given life term

The district court of Gautam Buddh Nagar on Saturday gave life term to a former RTI activist, Chandra Mohan Sharma, for faking his death in 2014.

In May 2014, Chandra Mohan, a resident of sector Alpha-2 in Greater Noida, faked his death by setting his car ablaze along with a man, who he strangled to death with his belt, near JP Greens under Kasna police station.

After the crime, he eloped with his 25-year-old girlfriend to Bangalore leaving behind his wife and children. However, he was soon tracked down by the Noida police after the family of the woman he had gone with reported a missing complaint.

Five years later, the court sentenced him to life in jail after convicting him of guilty of the crimes. He is currently serving a five-year term.

During their stay in Bangalore, the woman’s family also reported of receiving several calls from an unknown person about her whereabouts. Tracing those calls the police reached Bangalore and tracked Sharma who was working in the Honda factory with a fake identity of Nitin Sharma from Hisar.

It is said the final nail in the coffin was struck when Chandra Mohan contacted his wife as he was not happy with the life he was leading in Bangalore and was betting on the life insurance money his wife would receive.

The district judge, Niranjan Kumar, also gave two-year imprisonment to his girlfriend, Preeti Nagar, for helping the accused in the crime and hiding evidence while another suspected, Videsh Sharma, was let off.

Along with the life imprisonment, the judge imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on Chandra Mohan.

Chandra Mohan was a part-time RTI activist and member of Aam Aadmi Party when he committed the crime. He was known to have raised a campaign against the land mafia nexus in Uttar Pradesh. After he was presumed dead in 2014, his wife had also lodged a murder case and named four people, who, she said could have killed her husband because he was an activist.