Right To Information activist Satish Shetty (38), who had been raking up several public issues about the realtors, especially those in the Maval area, was attacked with swords by masked men, while he was on his morning walk around 7.15 am
Right To Information activist Satish Shetty (38), who had been raking up several public issues about the realtors, especially those in the Maval area, was attacked with swords by masked men, while he was on his morning walk around 7.15 am. Shetty died on the spot. The murder triggered instant protests in the city with shop owners in the Panchavati and Jijamata chowk area downing shutters in protest.
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Brutal crime: Shops in Talegaon were shut in protest of
RTI activist Satish Shetty's murder yesterday. pic/Atul Marwadi |
Only last week, Shetty had filed a complaint that a two-wheeler had tried to run him over at Jijamata chowk in Talegaon.
Superintendent of Police Pratap Dighavkar said, "Shetty was running a public awareness campaign for the last 15 years. We are considering the issues he had taken up in the past hoping to get clues to nab the culprits behind the attack."
RTI activist Maruti Bhapkar, who is active in Pimpari-Chinchwad area, and a close aide of Shetty, said "Shetty had filed scores of RTI applications which exposed irregularities in land acquisition by Sable-Waghire company and IRB Builders and promoters. One such exposure led to the suspension of the deputy land registrar in the area."
Bhapkar suspects that the attack could have been the fall out of the issues that disturbed many including land mafias.
Manav Kamble, president of Nagri Hakka Suraksha Samiti, Pune District, said, "It is shocking that those who have power and money try to curb the voice of truth in such a heinous manner. We all protest against this brutal crime."
