Police in the city of Amritsar have accused Sunil Sharma’s brother of murdering the Melbourne teacher over a property dispute.

Indian authorities allege Melbourne maths teacher Sunil Sharma was murdered by his brother and dumped in a canal. He had been in India to prepare a property for sale.

The revelation came days after Sunil’s daughter Surbhi Sharma made an appeal to chief minister Bhagwant Mann for help in finding her father