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Second RTI activist killed within a month

Shashidhar Mishra exposed scams at panchayat and block levels

GN Bureau | February 22, 2010

Shashidhar Mishra, an RTI activist, was killed at his residence in Phulwaira village in Patna’s Begusarai district on the night of February 14.

Mishra is the second RTI activist to be killed within a month.

Earlier, Satish Shetty, a whistleblower, was killed outside his residence in Talegaon on the outskirts of Pune.

According to a report in The Hindu, Mishra had exposed many scams at panchayat and block levels using the RTI Act. In the process, he earned enmity of some local body representatives.

Begusarai Superintendent of Police Vinay Kumar told The Hindu that the police was looking into different angles to Mishra’s killing, including past enmity with certain people.

“An FIR has been lodged against three people, though we have not made any vital breakthrough in the case as of now,” Kumar told the national daily.

RTI activists in Bihar said Mishra’s death reflected the ignorance on the part of the government. “Mishra was not the only case. There are a number of activists who earn the wrath of the mafia and are threatened by them. But the government does nothing to protect them,” said Nemi Kumar of Bihar RTI Manch.

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