Attacks on RTI activists in India

Many Right to Information Act (RTI) activists, including policemen, have been harassed and even murdered for seeking information to "promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority" in India. Many face assaults on a regular basis. People seeking information from their gram panchayat and the local administration also face social ostracism. A few activists who sought information under RTI related to MNREGA scams, were killed.[1][2][3] Many threats and attacks (including murder) go unreported by the media.[4]

Overview

RTI activists are vulnerable human rights defenders (HRDs) in India. Unlike other HRDs, a majority of the RTI activists are not part of an organisation; they often act alone, moved by anger at corruption and other illegal activities. RTI activists are vulnerable because they live in the same areas as public authorities and political leaders who do not want information about their activities to be disclosed. For the most part, human rights defenders receive media attention only when killed or seriously injured. When complaints are made by RTI activists, law enforcement personnel (who often work with corrupt officials) do not take appropriate action. The Right to Information Act, 2005 provides inadequate protection to whistleblowers. The Central Information Commission and the State Information Commissions are not mandated to deal with such threats or attacks or to provide protection when needed.[5]

There is a need to amend the RTI Act to provide for the protection of those seeking information under the Act. The Asian Centre for Human Rights recommends that a separate chapter, “Protection of those seeking information under the(RTI) Act”,[6] be inserted into the Act. Protection measures should include (a)mandatory, immediate registration of complaints of threats or attacks against RTI activists on the First Information Report and placing such FIRs before the magistrate or judge of the area within 24 hours for issuance of directions for protection of those under threats and their family members, and periodic review of such protection measures; (b)conducting inquiry into threats or attacks by a police officer not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police/Assistant Commissioner of Police, to be concluded within 90 days; and (c)trial of the accused within six months. Further, concerned Public Information Officers, First Appellate Authorities and those directly related with the information sought under the RTI Act should be presumed to have abetted the offenses against the RTI activists unless evidence proves otherwise.

Maharashtra ranks top in the number of attacks against, and murder of RTI activists.[7] This indicate unholy nexus between corporates and politicians. No attacks reported against RTI activists in Kerala and West Bengal. However some of the data given below may not be authentic because in the name of RTI activists many people also undertake blackmailing business. Also all the charges of killings may not be true.

List of attacks

Name State Date Attack type Nature of Activism
Sambhuram Bishnoi Rajasthan Oct. 2013 Assault with hockey and iron rods in his village sarpanch's house while going for aadhaar card enrollment Exposed MNREGA, Sajal Dhara tubewell scam against his village sarpanch
Adv. Mohd. Hasim Shaikh Maharashtra 05/01/2014 Assault with Hockey and Iron rods in the late evening when going towards home, got major injuries and also got finger fractured, the assaulters took away the cell phone and a wallet. Exposed License scams in BMC and also got Penalized officers of BMC by State Information Commissions, working as an alert and active citizen, associated with various citizens group.
Rinku Singh Rahi Uttar Pradesh 26 March 2009 Assaulted, removed to a mental institution.[8] Rahi is a bureaucrat who used RTI to expose welfare scheme fraud in Muzzaffarnagar
Firoz Ibrahim Khan Maharashtra 11/17/07 Assault[9]
Gopalbandhu Chhatria Orrisa 2 January 2009 Assault[10]
Ripu Daman Ohri Punjab 6 January 2009 Assault[11]
Munikrishna Karnataka 10/27/09 Assault[12]
Ajay Kumar Delhi 1 January 2010 Assault[13] Used RTI to enquire about private house/shop construction on public land under authorization given by a Delhi politician.
Kiran Pandey Punjab 1 October 2010 Assault[14]
Sumaira Abdulali Maharashtra 3/16/10 File RTI Online[15]
Abhay Patil Maharashtra 4 January 2010 Assault[16]
Ashok Kumar Shinde Maharashtra 7/17/10 Assault[17]
Budhai Kumar Uttar Pradesh 8 September 2010 Assault[18]
S Channabasappa Patil Karnataka 9/16/10 Assault[19]
Yashwant Gavand Maharashtra 1 February 2011 Assault[20]
Arun Baburao Mane Maharashtra 1 February 2011 Assault[21]
Salman Reddy Orissa 1/17/11 Assault[22]
Safdar Ali Jammu and Kashmir 1/20/11 Assault[23]
Vikrant Karnik Maharashtra 1/25/11 Assault[24]
Amar Pandey Uttar Pradesh 1/27/11 Assault[25]
Gopal Prasad, Anil Mittal, Nanda Sawant Delhi 2 March 2011 Assault[26]
Mangala Ram Rajasthan 3 March 2011 Assault[27]
Bharat Guggul, Bhanji Jogen Gujarat 3 May 2011 Assault[28]
Vishnu Medhkar Maharashtra 4 February 2011 Assault[27]
Dilip Jaiswal Maharashtra 4 May 2011 Assault[29]
Arvind Kaushal Maharashtra 4 August 2011 Assault[30]
Popat Barge Maharashtra 4/17/11 Assault[31]
Jai Bhagwan and Karambir Haryana 5/21/11 Assault[32]
Ismail Patwari Maharashtra 5/27/11 Assault[33]
C.P. Singh Maharashtra 6/22/11 Assault[34]
Baghu Dewani Gujarat 6/24/11 Assault[35]
Ganasham Kunkolkar Goa 7/22/11 Assault[36]
Jaisukh Bambhania Daman and Diu 8 August 2011 Assault[37]
Sanjit Das Meghalaya 8/14/11 Assault[38]
Ajay Ambalia Gujarat 8/31/11 Assault[39]
Parshuram Kishanlal Mali Gujarat 9 July 2011 Assault[40]
Manisha Goswami Gujarat 9/21/11 Assault[41]
Mehul Kataria Maharashtra 10 July 2011 Assault[42]
Santosh M Tiwari Maharashtra, Gujarat 10/16/11 Assault[43]
Poonam Solanki Gujarat 12 February 2011 Assault[44]
Akhilesh Saxena Uttar Pradesh 2008 Assault[10]
Parameswar Sabar Orissa June 2011 Assault[45]
Niren Pareek, Christopher Minz Assam May 2007 Assault[46]
Tapal Ganesh Karnataka Unknown Assault[47]
Purshottam Chauhan Gujarat Unknown Assault[48]
Narayan Hareka Orissa Unknown Assault[49]
Akhil Gogoi Assam Unknown Assault[46]
Sumit Kumar Mahato Jharkhand Unknown Assault[10]
Bibhav Kumar, Rajeev Kumar Uttar Pradesh 1/26/07 Harassment[50]
Tukaram Bansode Maharashtra 12/31/07 Harassment[51]
V Gopalakrishnan Tamil Nadu 3/13/09 Harassment[52]
Srikant Prabhu Maharashtra 5 January 2009 Harassment[10]
Kishori Ram Bihar 7/21/09 Harassment[10]
Goverdhan Singh Rajasthan 3 January 2010 Harassment[10]
Mohit Sharma Delhi 3 December 2010 Harassment[53]
Jay Kumar Raghuvanshi Maharashtra 3/13/10 Harassment[54]
Davinder Khurana Punjab 4 February 2010 Harassment[10]
Ramesh Agrawal Chhattisgarh 6/23/10 Harassment[10]
Ganesh Borhade Maharashtra 7 July 2010 Harassment[55]
Manish Bhatnagar Maharashtra 7/18/10
Harshad Patil Maharashtra 8/13/10 Harassment[56]
Gopalkrishnan, Siva Elango, Madhav Vishnubhatta Tamil Nadu 9 January 2010 Harassment[57]
Fatima Mynsong, Acquiline Songthiang, Matilda Suting Meghalaya 9 January 2010 Harassment[58]
Abhijit Ghosh Maharashtra 9 January 2010 Harassment[59]
Ratna Ala Gujarat 9/29/10 Harassment[60]
Bobby Basaiawmoit Meghalaya 2 January 2011 Harassment[61]
Mary Anne Pohshna Meghalaya 3 September 2011 Harassment[62]
Sanjay Gurav Maharashtra 3/22/11 Harassment[63]
M Z Ali Karnataka 5 October 2011 Harassment[64]
Ketan Shah Gujarat 5 December 2011 Harassment[65][66]
Ravinder Rathi Haryana 6 February 2011 Harassment[67]
Payi Gyadi Arunachal Pradesh 6 May 2011 Harassment[68]
Brijesh Kumar Delhi 8 February 2011 Harassment[69]
Ashok Paswan Bihar 8/19/11 Harassment[70]
Arvind Sharma Punjab 9 May 2011 Harassment[71]
Derrick Dias Goa 9 November 2011 Harassment[36]
Subhash Aggarwal Delhi 10 July 2011 Harassment[72]
Sheeba Fehmi and Arshad Ali Fehmi Delhi 10 August 2011 Harassment[73]
Sanjay Gurav Maharashtra 11/28/11 Harassment[74]
Anupam Saraf, Vaibhav Gandhi and Dinesh Shah Maharashtra 12/13/11 Harassment[75]
R. Marijoseph Karnataka 12/30/11 Harassment[76]
Kishan Lal Gera Haryana Since 2008 Harassment[77]
R V Prasanna Karnataka Since 2009 Harassment[78]
Shiv Prakash Rai Bihar May 2008 Harassment[70]
Takhellambam Ibempishak, Sagolsem Memcha and Konjengbam Anita Manipur Since Apr 2011 Harassment[79]
Pawan Sharma Uttar Pradesh Since 11 April 2011 Harassment[80]
Emmanuel Andhra Pradesh February and March 2011 Harassment[81]
Jagbir Singh Delhi Since February 2011 Harassment[82]
Biren Luwang Manipur Since April 2011 Harassment[83]
Injambakkam H Sekar Tamil Nadu Since August 2011 Harassment[84]
Khirasindhu Sagria Orrisa Since November 2011 Harassment[85]
Muzibur Rehman Unknown 2007 Harassment[86]
Saleem Baig Uttar Pradesh 2007 Harassment[10]
Asith Sangma Meghalaya 2008 Harassment[10]
Ashok Verma Punjab 2009 Harassment[87]
Kheemaram Rajasthan 2010 Harassment[88]
Shivaji Raut Maharashtra June 2011 Harassment[89]
Ajay Gakhar Delhi July 2011 Harassment[90]
All Gujarat RTI users Gujarat July 2011 Harassment[91]
Ankur Patil Maharashtra September 2011 Harassment[92]
Gunjan Mehta Gujarat December 2011 Harassment[93]
Durga Delhi 2011 Harassment[94]
C J Karira Andhra Pradesh 2011 Harassment[95]
Nelapati Papireddy, Pachalla Suryanarayana Reddy and Kovuru Satyanarayana Reddy Andhra Pradesh 2011 Harassment[96]
Mohinder Kumar Punjab Unknown Harassment[97]
Anwar Shaikh Maharashtra Unknown Harassment[98]
Y. Ekyimo Kikon Nagaland Unknown Harassment[99]
Ashok Rathod Gujarat Unknown Harassment[100]
Bharat H Gajjar, Milan Joshi Gujarat Unknown Harassment[101]
Rolly Shivhare Madhya Pradesh Unknown Harassment[10]
Jai Prakash Arya Delhi Unknown Harassment[102]
Gian Singh Delhi Unknown Harassment[102]
Ram Sagar Delhi Unknown Harassment[103]
Sumankant Raichaudhari Bihar Unknown Harassment[104]
Piyusha Tiwari Rajasthan Unknown Harassment[105]
Rayabhai Zapadiya Gujarat Unknown Harassment[106]
Razuddin Harayana Unknown Harassment[107]
Rukhminibhai Andhra Pradesh Unknown Harassment[108]
Roshan Lobo Karnataka Unknown Harassment[109]
Bhadresh Wamja Gujarat Unknown Harassment[41]
Bhanjibhai Jogel and Bharatbhai Ghughal Gujarat Unknown Harassment[41]
Lalit Mehta Jharkhand 5/15/08 Killed[110] Mehta used RTI to expose NREGA related scams. Fought for the social audit of NREGA
Kameshwar Yadav Jharkhand 6 July 2008 Killed[3] Sought information on the nexus among officers, politicians, contractors and middlemen in NREGA related irrigation projects in Deori.
Venkatesh Karnataka 4 June 2009
Satish Shetty Maharashtra 1/13/2010 Killed[111]
Arun Sawant Maharashtra 2 January 2010 Killed[112]
Vishram Laxman Dodiya Gujarat 2 November 2010 Killed[113]
Shashidhar Mishra Bihar 2/14/2010 Killed[114]
Sola Ranga Rao Andhra Pradesh 4 November 2010 Killed[113]
Vitthal Gite Maharashtra 4/21/2010 Killed[115]
Dattatraya Patil Maharashtra 5/22/2010 Killed[116]
Amit Jethwa Gujarat 7/20/2010 Killed[117] Used RTI to expose illegal mining in the Gir Forest area. BJP MP Dinu Boga arrested by CBI in this case. Earlier Gujarat police has given clean chit to Dinu Boga.
Vijay Pratap (alias Babbu Singh) Uttar Pradesh 7/25/2010 Killed[118]
Ramdas Ghadegaonkar Maharashtra 8/27/2010 Killed[119]
Sonu Haryana 2 October 2011 Killed[120]
Niyamat Ansari Jharkhand 3 February 2011 Killed[1] Exposed corruption by contractors in work under MNREGA.[1]
Amit Kapasia Gujarat 12/29/2011 Killed[121]
Shehla Masood Madhya Pradesh 8/16/2011 Killed[122]
S Bhuvaneswaran Tamil Nadu 1 October 2012 Killed[123]
Nadeem Saiyed Gujarat 11 May 2011 Killed (reason possibly unrelated)[124]
Ramvilas Singh Bihar 12 August 2011 Killed (reason possibly unrelated)[125]
V Balasubramanian Tamil Nadu 8/19/2010 Killed(?)[126]
Jabbardan Gadhvi Gujarat 2/22/2011 Suicide[127]
Ms. Poonam Solanki Gujarat 12 July 2011 Assault[44][128] Human Rights Activist
Dudhram Rajasthan, Jaipur 2 February 2012 Assault[129]
Premnath Jha Mumbai, Virar 25 Feb 2012 Killed[130] Filed several RTI queries with the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation seeking details of several construction projects
Akhil Gogoi Assam, Nalbari 5 July 2012 Assault[131]
Ramesh Agarwal Chhattisgarh, Raigarh, 7 July 2012 Shot[132]
Rajesh suresh Bobade Maharashtra 21 September 2012 Assault
Vasudeva Adiga Karnataka, Udupi 12 January 2013 Killed[133]
Ram Kumar Thakkur Bihar, Ratnauli Village, Muzzafarpur District 23 March 2013 Killed[2] Lawyer; Persisted with a legal case exposing "irregularities" in the implementation of NREGA welfare scheme in his village. Earlier, used RTI and exposed fraud involving sarpanch (village head).[2]
L.K.Thapliyal Uttarakhand 25 July 2013 Assault Beaten up by a group of men including a ranger, Devendra Baurai from the Chilawali range of Rajaji National Park. Mr L.K. Thapliyal had filed a RTI against Rajaji National Park.
Sudhir Yadav Haryana, Gurgaon 06 oct 2013 Harassment[134] An RTI Activist who tried to Bring all the documents of Corruption From Villages of the Block Farrukh Nagar, Gurgaon was threaten to be killed if he continue filling the RTI against Sarpanch and keep asking about the development work.
Anoop Singh Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Dankaur Town December 2013 Abducted and Tortured An RTI activist was abducted from Dankaur town in Gautam Budh Nagar district on December 13, burnt with cigarette butts on his private parts and beaten with iron rods before being dumped near a petrol pump in a neighbouring district four days later.

[135] [136]

Dilip kumar reddy k Hyderabad 3 Jan 2014 removed from the job Exposed corruption in engineering college fee reimbursement and seat allocation at aurora Institute.
Sanjay Tyagi Uttra Pradesh, Meerut 25 May 2014 Killed [137]
Sandeep Kothari Maharashtra, Nagpur 19–21 June 2015 Strangled and then burned to death[138] Exposed illegal sand mining and land grabbing

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