Another RTI activist assaulted in Bihar
12 Apr, 2012A Right to Information (RTI) activist, Mr. Nabi Ahmad, has accused government officials in Bihar's Rohtas district of physical assault and has lodged an FIR. He has claimed that an executive engineer, assistant engineer and three contractors of the water resources department in Dehri-On-Sone, a town in Rohtas, about 150 km from Patna assaulted him as he had sought information from the executive engineer about illegal mining on the department's land. He was allegedly threatened for his bid to expose the involvement of the officials.