Personal Data Protection Bill Will Severely Restrict Scope of RTI Act : Activists Write to MPs thewire.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thewire.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'In our view, the connection between Ranjeet Soni’s murder and his use of the RTI Act to access information and expose alleged corruption or irregularities cannot be denied,' a fact-finding team has noted.
The regularity with which Right to Information (RTI) activists are killed across the county, often brutally and in broad daylight, should be a cause for deep concern for the government to the point of bringing in a strong whistle-blowers’ act.
A month after 42-year-old RTI activist Ranjeet Soni was shot dead in a government office in Madhya Pradesh s Vidisha district, a fact-finding team of activists has released a report noting that Soni had been under severe pressure from local government contractors to stop his activities.
A month after 42-year-old RTI activist Ranjeet Soni was shot dead in a government office in Madhya Pradesh s Vidisha district, a fact-finding team of activists has released a report noting that Soni had been under severe pressure from local .