In Pics | Famous people who faked their death

Poonam Pandey, who kept everyone quizzing with her death news for a good 24 hours, clarified that she is alive and the news of her death was a way of spreading awareness about cervical cancer.

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RTI activist and AAP member Chandra Mohan Sharma faked his death to lead a new life with his ladylove in 2014. Unhappy with his marriage, Sharma staged his death by setting his car on fire, with a man inside it. However, he got caught after few months and was sentenced to life imprisonment for the death of the homeless man.

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In 2014, Marathi actor Alka Punewar faked her death to start a new life with her boyfriend Alok Paliwal.

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John Darwin is another individual who infamously faked his own death. He fabricated his death by spreading a news that he drowned in 2002. Darwin and his wife Anne conspired to commit an insurance fraud of £680,000. However, the couple's plan fell apart and both were convicted of fraud.

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John Stonehouse, a British politician staged his own death in 1974 in order to escape financial difficulties and legal troubles. He left his clothes on a beach in Miami, making it appear that he had drowned, and then traveled to Australia with a false identity. However, his plan failed when Australian authorities became suspicious, and he was eventually arrested in Melbourne in 1974.

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