RTI activist shot in Bihar
May 11th, 2012 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANSPatna, May 11 (IANS) A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot and seriously wounded Friday by some assailants in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, police said.
RTI activist Razi Hasan was battling for life at a hospital in Muzaffarpur, about 70 km from here. “It was a murderous attack on him,” a police official said.
Police have arrested two people suspected to be involved in the attack.
Mahendra Yadav, an RTI activist, said Hasan was repeatedly threatened by some people after he exposed their misdeeds.
“Hasan complained thrice to the local police that he was facing threat to his life but they hardly initiated any action,” Yadav claimed.
During the last one year, nearly a dozen RTI activists were attacked, assaulted and harassed across Bihar. Last December, an RTI activist, Ram Vilas Singh was shot dead in Lakhisarai district, while an activist was assaulted in Rohtas district last month, sources said.
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