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RTI activist in Mumbai attacked

-The Times of India
 
An RTI activist was attacked by four people, two of them believed to be cricket bookies, with a chopper and hammer in subur-ban Kandivali in Mumbai, police said.

According to police, the activist, Mehul Kataria, 39, was walking on the road on Friday night when the assailants started thrashing him. The accused ran away when people gathered around the place. Kataria was rushed to the nearby Bhagwati hospital with injuries to his head and abdomen.

"An FIR under Section 324 - voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means - was registered against four people for attacking Kataria," said senior inspector Hareshwar Pimple. "Of the four, he identified the two as Rakesh Rathod and Rajesh Nagaria, who according to him are cricket bookies," Pimple said, adding that a manhunt for the accused was on.

Kataria claimed that he had already requested for police protection, as he sensed threat from the bookies in the area, as their operations had been busted by police, following a tip-off provided by him in January this year.


"The bookies and their associates nursed a grudge against me and had plans to attack me. I requested the police to provide me protection, but they did not pay heed. I had even appealed in the Bombay high court, seeking protection and the court had directed the police to review my case and going by the threat perception, provide me security," Kataria claimed. "But the local police did not look into the matter, as they were hand in gloves with the bookies," Kataria alleged. However, Pimple rubbished the allegations, stating they never received any court order in this regard.