As attacks on RTI applicants continue, authorities must do m

As attacks on RTI applicants continue, authorities must do more to bring perpetrators to justice


As attacks on RTI applicants continue, authorities must do more to bring perpetrators to justice
The highest number of attacks on RTI activists has occurred in Maharashtra, a new study shows.
Feb 24, 2021 · 09:00 am
Activists in Delhi protest against the amendments to the Right to Information Act in July 2019.
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On February 24, 2012, as Premnath Jha was riding to his home in Mumbai’s Virar area, several bullets were fired at him from a revolver. He died in hospital shortly after. Despite this, the police registered a case of accidental death. It was only when a postmortem was conducted at the insistence of his family that the authorities admitted that the Right to Information Act activist had been murdered.

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