Home guard killed for seeking info under RTI
Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui, TNN, Jul 28, 2010, 06.07am IST
LUCKNOW: In a first of its kind incident, a UP police home guard was
done to death allegedly for daring to seek information under the RTI
Act about government funds and work done by his village pradhan in
Bahraich. The accused pradhan's husband and four others have been
arrested in this connection. The police say the murder is fallout of a
40-year-old dispute between the two sides over a piece of land.
The incident took place in Katghar village under Ranipur police
station of Bahraich on Sunday afternoon. According to reports,
ex-pradhan of Katghar Mohan Singh, his son Vijay Pratap (32) alias
Babbu Singh, who is a home guard and had come home on a holiday, and
brother Satyadeo Singh was supervising some construction work on a
piece of land in the village when one Indrajeet Singh and his cohorts
reached the site.
Indrajeet is husband of the sitting village pradhan since the seat was
reserved for the fairer sex in the last elections.
"As soon as they reached us, they started abusing and eventually a
free for all ensued. Since we were not expecting a showdown and they
had come prepared with sticks and rods in hand, we could not do much
and they beat us severely," Satyadeo said recollecting the sequence of
events.
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Urvashi Sharma
RTI Helpmail( Web Based )
aishwaryaj2010@gmail.com
Mobile Rti Helpline
8081898081 ( 8 A.M. to 10 P.M. )
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