Who was Shehla Masood ?

Daily Bhaskar: Bhopal: Thursday, March 01, 2012.

After many months of investigation, the police claim to have finally cracked the mystery of Shehla Masood's murder, which took place in August last year.

Who was Shehla Masood? An environmentalist, Masood was a wildlife and RTI activist, who was also actively involved with Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption campaign. She even sat on fast with the anti-corruption crusader.

Daughter of a retired government employee, Masood Sultan, the 38-year-old activist also held the post of secretary of NGO Udai, and was the CEO of an events and media related services company called 'Miracles'.

Shehla was unmarried and used to live with her father and aunt in the Koh-e-Fiza locality of Bhopal. Her sister lives in the US.

Although she primarily worked for wildlife conservation, she also supported other causes like good governance, police reforms, women's rights & issues and sexual minorities rights.

She was actively involved in raising issues related to the deaths of tigers in the various sanctuaries of Madhya Pradesh.
She was also worked for the RSS backed Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Trust, organizing events for them from Srinagar to Kolkata to Delhi.

She had asked for details about Narmada Samagraha, an NGO backed by the BJP Rajya Sabha MP.
She was also a co-founder of RTI Anonymous, a service for whistle blowers for filing anonymous Right to Information (RTI) Applications with Indian Government departments without getting victimized, with her friends just a few days before her death.

The RTI activist was shot dead in Bhopal on August 16, 2011 while she was leaving for a campaign of India Against Corruption (IAC).

The CBI took almost six months, after taking the case on September 6 last year, to find out the people behind the high-profile murder of this eventmanager-turned-RTI activist.