CJ Mangla Ram was attacked after he exposed discrepancies in Govt schemes like MNREGA. ...
02:45 PM, May 06, 2013
CJ Suresh Kumar Sharma's first person account on victimisation after exposing dubious of a gas agency in Amritsar. ...
02:39 PM, May 06, 2013
CJ Dhanajay Dubey talks about his brother Satyendra who was murdered for raising his voice against corruption. ...
02:32 PM, May 06, 2013
This week on the Citizen Journalist show we focus on the whistleblowers who have spoken out against corruption amidst threat and intimidation. ...
02:22 PM, May 06, 2013
Indore: A special CBI court on Monday rejected the bail plea of two accused in the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. Saquib Ali `Danger' and Tabish Khan, the alleged shooters accused of executing the murder in 2011, were refused bail by Judge Anupam Srivastava. The accused had filed the bail applications in December 2012 and the court completed hearing the arguments on them by defence lawyer and CBI prosecutor...
12:35 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Nagpur: Aadhaar cards will henceforth bear date of birth of the holder, facilitating people to avail benefits of several government and non-governmental schemes which require age validation. Till now, only year of birth was mentioned in the card, but now, it has been agreed in-principle to insert the date of birth, said city-based RTI activist Avinash Prabhune, who pursued the matter with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and...
12:45 PM, Apr 09, 2013
The CBI is likely to question a senior BJP MLA of Madhya Pradesh next week in connection with his alleged association with Shehla Masood murder accused Zahida Parvez and his alleged role in the murder conspiracy. ...
02:59 PM, Feb 24, 2013
A day after an RTI activist was "attacked" with syringes allegedly containing poison in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, police doubted his version saying he might have probably got self-inflicted with syringes and staged an attack on himself. Police termed Rao as a self-styled RTI activist who had personal rivalry with a police inspector. ...
03:23 PM, Dec 31, 2012
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04:55 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Mumbai: The CBI on Friday conducted searches at the offices of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, in connection with the January 2010 murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. IRB was, in fact, in news recently over its links with BJP chief Nitin Gadkari. "Searches are being conducted at four premises of IRB in Pune," a senior CBI official said on condition of anonymity without disclosing details. A year before he was...
01:49 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Bhopal: Bhopal police is assessing the threat perception to Sultan Masood, father and chief prosecution witness in the slain RTI activist Shehla Masood murder case, who has demanded a security cover. "We have asked the concerned police station (Koh-e-Fiza) to assess the threat perception to Sultan and will take a decision on it after studying its report," Bhopal Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Yogesh Choudhary said. "I had met the state...
12:59 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Vadodara: Two RTI activists have written a letter to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying details of travel expenses incurred by him and others in attending job fairs organised by the government have not been provided to them despite seeking the information six months ago. The activists, Rohit Prajapati and Amrish Brambhatt, on Friday said they filed an RTI application on April 14, 2012, seeking details about the expenses incurred...
05:33 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy over whether leaders should share the details of expenses incurred on their travel is getting fierce. There is more embarrassment for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a social activist in Vadodara has accused Modi's office of failing to share information for more than five years on his travel expenses for women sammelans. Activist Trupti Shah had filed the RTI application in 2007. The government gave...
12:16 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will take over the probe into the murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Amit Jethwa. The case has been transferred to the CBI after the Gujarat Police gave a clean chit to BJP MP Dinu Solanki in February 2012. The court observed that investigation by the Gujarat police in the Jethwa murder case was far from satisfactory and to instil the confidence...
03:37 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Bhopal: Witnesses in the Shehla Masood murder case are expected to depose in an Indore court on Monday. Non-bailable warrants were issued against the RTI activist's father and a relative of hers after they failed to appear at the last hearing in the case. Shehla was killed in Bhopal in 2011. ...
09:45 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Panaji: In a bizarre incident, a senior civic officer has filed a police complaint against a Right to Information (RTI) activist claiming that the latter has been "paralysing" his office with RTI applications. In a complaint filed with the Mapusa police station, Hanumant Toraskar, chief officer of the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC), on Friday said Deepak Gadekar had been filing RTIs with the council, "even though he is not a...
01:51 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Chandigarh: In a first of its kind initiative, a library of RTI documents has been set up in Chandigarh. It aims at becoming a repository of RTI documents that have already reached the public domain and need not be applied for again. So, if you have filed an RTI application in Chennai or Guwahati, Hemant Goswami in far-flung Chandigarh is its safe-keeper. He has been diligently spending hours formulating a...
08:09 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Raipur: A leading Chhattisgarh RTI activist was injured when two unidentified gunmen shot him twice in the state's industrial town Raigarh. He is said to be out of danger now. Ramesh Agrawal, 56, known for protecting local communities from industrial pollution and displacement due to industrial projects through Right to Information Act (RTI), was shot at in his office in a congested locality in heart of the town, some 225...
08:12 AM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Congress councillor was arrested on Friday night in connection with the Akhil Gogoi assault case. Reports allege the person arrested is Councillor Tapan Barman. Gogoi, an RTI activist and a Team Anna member, was attacked by suspected Youth Congress members on Friday in Assam's Nalbari district. Gogoi had gone to the Dharmapur area to take stock of the flood situation, when he was allegedly attacked with sticks...
11:16 AM, Jul 07, 2012
