2 held, Amrapali MD says he’s falsely framed
8 Aug 2014 12:05 AM GMT
Anil Kumar Sharma has been booked as a co-accused in the murder that allegedly took place over a property dispute.
On Thursday, two suspected shooters were detained by Bihar police and they are being intensively quizzed. Early Saturday morning, Sharad Chandra Kumar, former secretary of Balika Vidyapeeth, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants at his residence on the institute’s premises. His wife Usha alleged her husband was murdered over a dispute over the institute property. In her complaint, filed at Lakhisarai police station, she named seven persons as conspirators of the murder. Out of those, Sharma was alleged to be the prime accused.
Sharma was one of the richest contestants in the last Lok Sabha polls and fought the general election from Jehanabad on a JD(U) ticket. ‘The role of Sharma who reportedly owns assets worth Rs 850 crore is under the scanner,’ officials investigating the case said. Though Bihar police has not given a clean chit to Sharma, officials have not quizzed him yet.
Speaking to Millennium Post, superintendent of police Ashok Sharma said, ‘We have filed an FIR against seven persons namely Anil Kumar Sharma, Dr Praveen Kumar Singh, Dr Shyam Sundar Singh, Rajender Singhaniya, Anita Sharma, Shambhu Sharan Singh and Radhe Shyam Singh.’ All of them have been booked under the sections 320 (murder), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (acts done by several persons with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. The two accused who attacked Chandra have also been booked under section 27 of Arms act.
‘We have arrested Dr Praveen Kumar Sharma, a treasurer of the 15-member trust of the residential school exclusively for girls. Investigation is on to establish the reason behind the murder,’ Sharma said.
Chandra was the secretary and the trust owner of Balika Vidhyapeeth. In 2009, Sharma, who had been allegedly eyeing the school’s property, opened an engineering institute named Amrapali Engineering institute on the same campus. He also established a separate managing committee that led to a clash between Chandra and him.
Chandra also sought the help of the court and won the case, his family claimed. ‘On 9 August, a team from Delhi was scheduled to visit the institute to investigate the dispute over its trusteeship.
But before that, a conspiracy was hatched and Chandra was murdered,’ the family claimed.
Speaking to Millennium Post, Sharma rubbished all allegations and said, ‘I have resigned from the trusteeship of the Balika Vidhyapeeth Trust and also from its official position on 9 March, 2014 itself and I am in no way related to the affairs of Balika Vidyapeeth. I have been falsely framed and the allegations of conspiracy against me are completely false and ill-motivated.’
On Thursday, two suspected shooters were detained by Bihar police and they are being intensively quizzed. Early Saturday morning, Sharad Chandra Kumar, former secretary of Balika Vidyapeeth, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants at his residence on the institute’s premises. His wife Usha alleged her husband was murdered over a dispute over the institute property. In her complaint, filed at Lakhisarai police station, she named seven persons as conspirators of the murder. Out of those, Sharma was alleged to be the prime accused.
Sharma was one of the richest contestants in the last Lok Sabha polls and fought the general election from Jehanabad on a JD(U) ticket. ‘The role of Sharma who reportedly owns assets worth Rs 850 crore is under the scanner,’ officials investigating the case said. Though Bihar police has not given a clean chit to Sharma, officials have not quizzed him yet.
Speaking to Millennium Post, superintendent of police Ashok Sharma said, ‘We have filed an FIR against seven persons namely Anil Kumar Sharma, Dr Praveen Kumar Singh, Dr Shyam Sundar Singh, Rajender Singhaniya, Anita Sharma, Shambhu Sharan Singh and Radhe Shyam Singh.’ All of them have been booked under the sections 320 (murder), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (acts done by several persons with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code. The two accused who attacked Chandra have also been booked under section 27 of Arms act.
‘We have arrested Dr Praveen Kumar Sharma, a treasurer of the 15-member trust of the residential school exclusively for girls. Investigation is on to establish the reason behind the murder,’ Sharma said.
Chandra was the secretary and the trust owner of Balika Vidhyapeeth. In 2009, Sharma, who had been allegedly eyeing the school’s property, opened an engineering institute named Amrapali Engineering institute on the same campus. He also established a separate managing committee that led to a clash between Chandra and him.
Chandra also sought the help of the court and won the case, his family claimed. ‘On 9 August, a team from Delhi was scheduled to visit the institute to investigate the dispute over its trusteeship.
But before that, a conspiracy was hatched and Chandra was murdered,’ the family claimed.
Speaking to Millennium Post, Sharma rubbished all allegations and said, ‘I have resigned from the trusteeship of the Balika Vidhyapeeth Trust and also from its official position on 9 March, 2014 itself and I am in no way related to the affairs of Balika Vidyapeeth. I have been falsely framed and the allegations of conspiracy against me are completely false and ill-motivated.’
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