After fraud, murder case against Amrapali ex-CMD Anil Sharma over Sharad Chand's death in 2014

After a raft of bank fraud cases, a murder case has been filed against Anil Sharma, the former chairman and managing director of Amrapali Group.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 11 January 2023 named Sharma as an accused in the murder of Sharad Chand, a former secretary of Bihar-based educational institution Balika Vidyapeeth.

Chand was murdered in August 2014 to gain control of land and assets of the institution, according to investigators. He was allegedly shot dead while he was reading a newspaper sitting in the verandah of his residence at about 6:30 am on August 2, 2014.

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"It has also been alleged that in August 2009, one Anil Sharma, MD of Amrapali Group, had usurped the trust of Balika Vidyapeeth with the help of Rajendra Prasad Singhania, Dr Praveen Kumar Sinha, Shyam Sunder Prasad and Shambhu Sharan Singh, and the deceased was removed forcibly and since then, a dispute was going on between both the parties," the FIR says.

(With PTI inputs)