-The Hindu   A member of the district unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) said that he was being harassed by some officials and members of Paduperar Gram Panchayat for exposing financial irregularities in the panchayat. PUCL member and RTI Activist Roshan Lobo told presspersons that he had exposed a number of irregularities in the panchayat, because of which he was being harassed. He has lodged a complaint with the police. Holding...

-The Indian Express   While Jethava’s killing hit the headlines, many others are nursing their wounds The murder of RTI Activist Nadeem Saiyed in Ahmedabad on Saturday is only one among several incidents where those seeking to expose corruption have been targeted. “The Gujarat government has failed to protect rights of RTI Activists,” says Bhikhu Jethava, father of Amit Jethava, an RTI Activist who was shot dead outside the Gujarat High Court in 2010. Bhikhu...

-The Indian Express   The RTI Activists in the state have decided to hold a meeting in Porbander near Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana fast venue with a plan to approach the central government for introducing a bill to safeguard RTI Activists across the nation. Around 200 RTI Activists from Saurashtra and other parts of Gujarat gathered at city’s Juhapura area on Sunday to extend their support to the family of RTI Activist...

-The Hindu   The Supreme Court has expressed serious concern over fake encounters by the police and said “tolerance of police atrocities would amount to acceptance of systemic subversion and erosion of the rule of law”. Upholding the life sentence awarded to four Punjab Police officers who were responsible for kidnap and killing of a human rights Activist, a Bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and B.S. Chauhan said: “Police atrocities are always violative...

-Express News Service Nadeem Saiyed, a key witness to the Naroda Patiya massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots, was brutally killed on the main street of Juhapura on Saturday. He was stabbed 25 times, just steps away from the anti-terrorism group headquarters. Two Juhapura residents, Firdos Mullah and Mushir Ahmed, have been booked for murder and conspiracy. Saiyed’s father named them along with several others, accusing them of ordering his killing. A police informer...