Anil Sharma, the managing director (MD) of India's Amrapalli Group, is among six people who are accused of the murder of a man in the eastern state of Bihar which happened in 2014. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's premier probe agency, which took over the investigation into the case on the order of the Patna high court and booked the accused in connection with the murder, said the motive was to take over the land and assets of an educational institution.
The victim, Dr Sharad Chandra, who was a secretary of Balika Vidyapeeth in Lakhisarai, was gunned down at his home.
"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," the agency alleged.
The secretary, the CBI said, was targeted earlier too as he had questioned the way the school was run.
He was threatened and attacked earlier.
His house was damaged and he was shot at, the agency added.
The murder was initially probed by the local police but was later handed over to the crime investigation department (CID) in October the same year of death.
In 2017, Chandra’s widow Usha Sharma filed a writ petition in the Patna HC, questioning the CID's conduct.
Recently, a single-member bench of justice Rajeev Ranjan Prasad at the high court ordered a CBI probe into the matter.
The court said that the CID had failed to conduct a free, fair, and impartial investigation in the case.
Sharma was granted anticipatory bail in the case in December 2014.
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