Indian Express: Mumbai: Monday, May 20, 2013.
THREE days
after RTI activist Nathalal Sukhadia of Amreli was allegedly threatened by an
anonymous caller after he declared to expose the alleged corruption in the
administration of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC), Amreli taluka
police has not achieved any breakthrough in the case.
"We are
seeking the call details of Sukhadia and trying to identify the person who made
the phone call," an officer of Amreli taluka police said on Sunday.
Sukhadia hit the headlines last year after he alleged the then state
Agriculture Minister Dilip Sanghani and his family members of irregularities in
the affairs of Amreli District Cooperative Bank on the basis of information he
obtained under RTI. The activist's campaign had dented the reputation of
Sanghani and had contributed to his defeat in state Assembly elections in
December last year.
But Sukhadia
had filed a complaint with Amreli taluka police on Friday, stating that a man
called him at 9.56 on Thursday and threatened to kill him if the activist
called a public meeting on Monday.
The activist
is fighting election as a director of the APMC. The election will be held on
May 23. He had announced to hold a public meeting to "expose
corruption" of the outgoing BJP-backed APMC board. "The board had
indulged in corrupt practices in auctioning 400 shops . I suspect the caller
was an aide of one of the outgoing office-bearers," Sukhadia said.
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