Indian Activist killed !!!

[Hafizzz]

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India right to information activist killed
BBC News - India right to information activist killed

A right to information activist has been shot dead by an unidentified gunman in the northern Indian city of Bhopal, police said.

Shehla Masood was found with a gunshot wound in her car outside her home on Tuesday. She was on her way to an anti-corruption protest in the city.

Nearly a dozen right to information activists have been killed and scores other attacked in India since 2008.

The law allows Indians to access information held by the government.

Ms Masood, who also ran an event management company, had filed a number of right to information applications, a number of them related to wildlife conservation.

According to reports, last year she had informed the authorities that she "feared for her life" and had complained about it to the police chief.

The police said it was investigating the murder.

We all know what is going on......

[jdme]

Self edited due to hunger issue.

[Patrician]

We all know what is going on......

Yeah, we too.

That's why so many Indians are out on streets.

Wanna join'em?

I can arrange for your visa.

[PlanetWarrior]

Damn. India is getting uncontrollable. Somebody actually got murdered there ! Pakistan should ask the UNO to send in peacekeeping troops into India or else the entire country will become ungovernable.

[Patrician]

Self edited due to hunger issue.

Actually the one murdered was an RTI activist.

About a dozen RTI activists have been killed in the recent past.

...but then, isn't that the essence of what so many Indians are out there protesting about?

Ha! fizzzzzzz.....would like to tell us something else, I guess.

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Edited : Rest in peace

[Vibs]

She had recently blown the cover on illegal diamond mining and on poachers in the Area. A sad loss for the country.

[Leader]

RIP to the lady being shot, she was fighting for a noble cause...

[EastWest]

We all know what is going on......

We as Indians know what is going on..But i want to know, what u as a Pakistani think is going on??

[Andross]

RIP and death to the mafia!!!

[Major Shaitan Singh]

Shehla Masood was shot dead by an unidentified assailant outside her house in the city's posh Koh-e-Fiza locality as she was on her way to an anti-corruption campaign being organised by her and other activists in support of Mr. Anna Hazare at the Bhopal Boat Club.

“We have registered it as a case of unnatural death. Anything more can be said only after the postmortem report,” Bhopal Senior Superintendent of Police Adarsh Katiyar told The Hindu.

Bhopal, not used to the professionally executed metro-style shootout, was stunned at the activist's death. “I am shocked. We had planned a proactive campaign where people would have been asked to write, on a 200-foot-wide banner, about the most corrupt government departments and officers in Madhya Pradesh,” Ajay Dube, RTI activist and long-time associate of Ms. Masood told The Hindu.

Ms. Masood, who also ran an event management company, had managed to constantly annoy the powers that be with her incisive RTI queries and public campaigns, mostly against corruption and for wildlife conservation. She was also a freelance journalist, contributing regularly to news website rediff.com on issues related to the environment and tiger conservation.

Last year, Ms. Masood had told the authorities she “feared for her life” from a senior officer of the Indian Police Service and had complained about the matter to two successive police chiefs of the State.

Ms. Masood had written to the current Madhya Pradesh Director-General of Police S.K. Raut, complaining against a particular officer.

In the letter, Ms. Masood had accused him of harassing her and making threatening calls to her, about which she had lodged a complaint at the city's Maharana Pratap Nagar Police Station in 2008.

“I fear for my life from [him]. Please do the needful and oblige,” she had urged the DGP.

The officer concerned, whose name The Hindu is withholding, did not answer calls or reply to text messages seeking his clarification on the matter. However, Bhopal IG Shailendra Shrivastava told The Hindu: “Yes, there was a complaint against the said officer. We sent Ms. Masood several notices offering probes at the thana level, additional SP level and DIG level, all of which she refused. Finally, I requested her to give me her statement. But she said she had filed a case against the said officer in Lokayukta and that she would give me a statement only once the Lokayukta probe was over.”

Like other RTI activists across India who have paid the ultimate price for making persistent and uncomfortable queries, Ms. Masood's efforts may well have put her in harm's way.

She was planning to file a Public Interest Litigation petition against a private college based on recent media reports. “It is a very powerful group of people, including local political leaders, that I will be up against once I file this PIL. I know who they are but I can't speak out much as I am still collecting information,” Ms. Masood had confessed, speaking to this correspondent last week.

Ms. Masood was also an active tiger conservationist and environmental crusader, constantly digging up information on the poaching mafia, illegal diamond mining mafia, timber mafia and the hospitality industry, which she said was violating environmental laws.

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India is starting to be like Mexico in violence.

[harpoon]

India is starting to be like Mexico in violence.

If Americans stop snorting cocaine, there will be no violence in not only Mexico but also countries like Columbia.

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Sad news indeed ...world need more pro anti corroption ppl

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If Americans stop snorting cocaine, there will be no violence in not only Mexico but also countries like Columbia.

Following your logic, Indians must have snorted tons of cocaine to have such a violence epidemic.