Rti Activists Murdered

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  3 Arrested For Murder Of Man Who Filed RTI Query Against Village Head In UP

  Three persons were arrested in connection with the murder of a 32-year-old man who had sought an RTI query against the local village head in Iglas police station limits here, an official said on Wednesday.

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  Karnataka High Court Acquits All Accused In 2012 RTI Activist Murder Case

  The Karnataka High Court has acquitted all the 12 accused in a case relating to the murder of RTI activist and editor of 'Maha Prachanda' newspaper Lingaraju back in 2012 citing lack of corroboratory evidence.

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  5 Arrested For Murder Of RTI Activist Abhimanyu Panda: Odisha Cops

  Five persons were arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of RTI activist Abhimanyu Panda in Odisha's Kandhamal district, a senior police officer said on Sunday.

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  JDU Leader Detained, 1 Arrested After RTI Activist's Murder

  A village organisation head was arrested on Monday while a JDU leader and two others were detained a day after an RTI activist and his friend were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Jamui district, police said.

• Amit Jethwa case: High court orders CBI probe into RTI activist's murder

  The Gujarat High Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the murder case of RTI activist Amit Jethwa.

• Polygraph test on 12 people in RTI acitivist murder case

  A sessions court on Thursday gave the green signal to the CBI to conduct polygraph tests on 12 persons in connection with the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. These 12 include an IRB official and five suspects, who were earlier arrested by the local crime branch of the rural police.

• Shehla Masood murder: Farooqui sent to three-day CBI custody

  A special CBI court today sent Saba Farooqui, a close friend of architect Zahida Parvez who is the alleged mastermind of RTI activist Shehla Masood's murder, to the agency's custody till March 6.

• Shehla Masood murder case: CBI arrests woman architect in Bhopal

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested Bhopal-based architect Zayeda Pervez in connection with the murder of Right To Information (RTI) activist Shehla Masood.

• Amit Jethwa murder case: BJP MP's nephew arrested

  Shiva Solanki, nephew of BJP MP Dinu Solanki was today arrested from near the Rajkot airport in connection with the murder of RTI activist and green crusader Amit Jethwa."We arrested Shiva Solanki while he was on his way to Mumbai," said Police Crime Branch Chief Mohan Jha.Jethwa had filed a Public Interest Litigation against illegal mining in Gir ...

• RTI activist Amit Jethwa's murder: MP's nephew involved?

  The Ahmedabad crime branch claims to have evidence linking influential BJP MP Dinu Solanki's nephew to the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa in July this year.The crime branch is basing its charges on the confession of a police constable, Bahadursinh Wader. The police claim that the immediate trigger was a complaint filed by Jethwa on the setting ...

• Bill to protect whistleblowers in Cabinet today

  The much-awaited bill to protect whistleblowers, the people who reveal corruption and the corrupt, will come up before the Cabinet today.The bill says that the Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) will be the nodal agency to look into all complaints and that he will have the powers of a civil court and it will be his responsibility to protect the ide...

• RTI activist killed for campaign against BJP MP, says family

  The family of Amit Jethwa believes that the Right to Information activist was killed in Gujarat because he was fighting illegal mining, which allegedly involves several politicians.  Jethwa was shot on Wednesday night as he was leaving his lawyer's office, opposite the Gujarat High Court which is a high-security area. The two men who fired a r...