Zee News: Lucknow: Wednesday, 09 July 2014.
An RTI
activist was stabbed in Uttar Pradesh's Mau district when he was travelling in
an auto rickshaw, police said on Tuesday.
The incident
happened when RTI activist Raj Kumar Singh was travelling in an auto rickshaw
along with a colleague. Unknown men riding motorbike intercepted his vehicle
and dragged him out. They attacked him with a hammer and stabbed him many times
before fleeing the spot, police said.
The passersby
rushed to the spot and rescued the RTI activist. He was taken to a nearby
hospital where his condition is stated to be serious.
The victim
told police that he was attacked by sons of a local woman village chief as he
had sent some RTI queries against her illegal activities.
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