Mid-Day: Mumbai: Friday, March 28, 2014.
A day after
Right To Information (RTI) activist Vilas Baravkar committed suicide, Chakan
police seemed to be doing little to investigate the allegations he made in his
suicide note against several senior police officers.
“We are
looking into the allegations made by Baravkar against his relatives, but will
investigate the role of police officers later,” said a senior police official who
is part of the investigation team.
On Wednesday,
the police called Baravkar’s family members and handed them his belonging after
his post-mortem was conducted art Chakan rural hospital.
Sushil
Shevkare, Baravkar’s son-in-law, said, “We were called by the police to collect
his belongings. The cops haven’t informed us about the investigation details.
They have not even recorded our statements.”
Asked about
the police protection the Baravkar family had demanded following his death,
Sushil said, “We will be submitting an application to the Chakan police on
Saturday, after completing the last rituals. We have requested senior police
officials to provide police protection to us. I hope they take a decision
soon.”
Additional
superintendent of police (SP), Vijaykumar Magar, told reporters that an enquiry
has been initiated and the probe has been transferred to deputy SP Vaibhav
Kalubarme.
Baravkar was
found hanging from the ceiling in his room on Tuesday morning at his Chakan
residence. He was an active RTI campaigner and had unearthed many scams
including the one embroiling a Rajgurunagar cooperative bank, whose top brass,
he had alleged, were involved in illegal construction activities and economic
offences.
He had also
exposed other shady land dealings in Chakan-Khed area. He had been provided
police protection four years ago, when he began receiving death threats.
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