The
Hindu: Pudukottai: Saturday, 24 January 2015.
An RTI
activist, who had sought details of income and expenditure of a village
panchayat, and his family members were attacked on Friday by a group of persons
at his residence at Veerapatti in Iluppur taluk in Pudukottai district.
M. Meganathan
(30) had sought the details of revenue and expenditure of the local body from
the office of the Block Development Officer in Annavasal, under which the
village falls. He had sought the details suspecting ‘evasion’ of tax due to the
village panchayat by the management of a group of private higher educational
institutions in the village. All of them have been admitted to the Dr.
Muthulakshmi Reddy Memorial Government Headquarters Hospital here.