Saturday, January 24, 2015

RTI activist attacked

The Hindu: Pudukottai ThiruvananthapuramThiruvananthapuram: 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.