'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 .