CBI files case in Bhopal activist’s murder
September 3rd, 2011 - 9:43 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against “unknown” people for the murder of Right to Information (RTI) activist Shehla Masood, an official said Saturday.
“A case has been registered against unknown persons under Section 302 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code),” said a CBI official.
Masood, who was also India Against Corruption’s Madhya Pradesh chapter head, was shot in the neck in her car at her home in the Koh-e-Fiza area of Bhopal Aug 16. She was about to leave to lead demonstrations in support of Anna Hazare’s agitation for a stronger Lokpal bill.
According to Madhya Pradesh’s Inspector General of Police Sailendra Srivastava, she was shot dead when she was sitting in the driver’s seat and the car was standing at the parking lot of her residence.
The Madhya Pradesh government had Aug 18 decided to ask the CBI to probe her murder.
Masood was also a green activist and had fought for the Save Tiger project in Madhya Pradesh.
She had once expressed fear that she could be killed.
In a complaint filed at the Maharana Pratap Nagar police station in Bhopal, she had accused a senior police officer, Pawan Shrivastava, of making threatening phone calls to her.
Masood reiterated her complaint to Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police S.K. Raut Jan 19, 2010.
Recently, Masood had filed an RTI application seeking information on at least 19 Indian Administrative Service officers, 13 Indian Forest Service officers and seven Indian Police Service officers.
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