RTI activist Maamaiah succumbs to brutal attack Police yet to make a breakthrough in case; last rites to be performed at his Tavarekere farmhouse today Share Via Email | A+A A- By Express News Service BENGALURU: RTI activist Venkatesh S, alias Maamaiah, who was brutally attacked by an armed five-member gang near his farmhouse in Tavarekere off Magadi Road on Thursday afternoon, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday afternoon. The 43-year-old couldn’t survive even after a surgery was performed to reattach his severed limbs. His right arm and right leg had been severed in the attack. The gang members had escaped, leaving him in a pool of blood when passers-by rushed him to a nearby private hospital, from where he was taken to Hosmat Hospital, where he underwent a complicated surgery, that continued till the wee hours of Friday.