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Mystery behind Shehla Masood's murder deepens by Hemender Sharma


The mystery behind the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood is deepening by the day. CNN-IBN has accessed letters written by Shehla to the Union Environmental Minister Jayanti Natrajan against illegal diamond mining in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

Phone records available also show that someone from Uganda was trying to get in touch with her hours after she was killed.

The letter from Shehla to Jayanti Natrajan was written as recently as July 25, 2011. Shehla in this letter wrote that she was in the process of corroborating facts that the collector of Chhatarpur had allowed illegal mining.

In the letter, she also said a PIL to this effect had been filed against Rio Tinto and that two collectors were removed from the district after they refused to allow illegal mining.

Shehla had written similar letters to two MPs Anant Gangaram Geete, and Jeetendra Singh Bundela.

These letters have been written on the letter heads of an NGO Udai of which Shehla was the president. The NGO was formed in 2004 but had moved towards wild life conservation only recently.

CNN-IBN has also accessed the phone records of Shehla. From 10:50 pm to 1:053 pm some one from Uganda from the number +256715753161 was trying to get in touch with her but she was already dead by then. These revelations show that the murder of the RTI activist is far from being an open and shut case.