¤ RTI activists face serious threats in certain situations. RTI activist Amit Jethwa was killed outside the Ahmedabad High Court in July 2010. Jethwa had named an MP while exposing illegal mining on the Gir forest periphery.
¤ Datta Patil, another activist, was found murdered in Ichalkaranji in May 2010. Patil had unearthed a corruption racket, leading to removal of a deputy superintendent of police and action against Ichalkaranji corporation officials.
¤ Vitthal Gite, an education activist, who had exposed irregularities in a village school in Beed, was killed in Aurangabad in April 2010.
¤ Shashidhar Mishra of Begusarai in Bihar, who had exposed corruption at the panchayat and blocklevels, was murdered by unknown assailants in February 2010.
¤ Arun Sawant, who filed many RTI applications about Badalpur Municipal Corporation, was shot dead on February 2010.
¤ Vishram Laxman Dodiya of Ahmedabad had filed an RTI application to get details about the illegal electricity connection by a private firm. He was murdered shortly after a meeting with the officials of the company in February 2010.
¤ Sola Ranga Rao of Andhra Pradesh had filed many applications seeking information from the Mandal Parishad Development Office on the funds sanctioned and utilized for the village’s drainage system. He was murdered in April 2010.
¤ Ramdas Ghadegavkar, another RTI activist was found deadin August 2010 under mysterious circumstances after he exposed the sand mafia in Nanded.