MLA's nephew arrested in RTI activist's murder case

Gujarat MLA Dinu Solanki of the BJP is also named as an accused in Amit Jethwa's murder while his nephew Shiva Solanki has been arrested.

PTI | September 7, 2010



Shiva Solanki, nephew of BJP MP Dinu Solanki was today arrested from near the Rajkot airport in connection with the murder of RTI activist and green crusader Amit Jethwa here, police said.

"We have arrested Shiva Solanki, from near the Rajkot airport while he was on his way to Mumbai," Police Crime Branch Chief Mohan Jha told PTI.

Jethwa had filed a Public Interest Litigation against illegal mining in Gir forest region in High court few days before he was shot dead from close range by two unknown motorcycle-borne assailants near the Gujarat High Court on July 20.

His father Bhikabhai Jethwa had alleged that the BJP MP from Junagarh was behind murder of his son.

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