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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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