The Asian Age: Mumbai: Friday,
January 20, 2017.
Thane’s
Shivaji Nagar police station has registered a case of criminal intimidation
against a restaurant owner for issuing threats to browbeat a 28-year-old female
student who had used the Right To Information (RTI) route to gather information
about his Girgaon eatery’s lack of safety protocols. The police will also
examine how the restaurant owner procured the student’s residential address, where
he reached to threaten her, even though she had shared her address only with
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities while seeking details
under the RTI Act.
“The police
will identify BMC officials who may have allegedly leaked the identity
particulars, including the address details, of the RTI applicant,” said a
police source. According to the source, the student, Shobha Wankhede, who stays
in Ambernath, is preparing for her civil services examination. She had gone to
the Girgaon eatery with her friends for a meal when she claimed to have seen
“gas cylinders kept carelessly”.
When
contacted, Ms Wankhede told The Asian Age, “I went to a Chinese restaurant late
last year. It has a mezzanine floor and I saw some full gas cylinders
carelessly kept there. Electric wires were not properly covered either, and
these things reminded me of the 2015 Kinara incident, wherein eight students
lost their lives because of a blast that took place due to a lack of safety
protocols.”
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