NEW DELHI: The death of RTI activist Ravinder Balwani
after a mysterious hit-and-run incident in the capital last month has
sparked allegations of murder, with his family saying the 61-year-old
was killed after repeated threats and that police were writing it off as
an accident.
Balwani, an aide of RTI activist Arvind Kejriwal
and a member of his NGO, Parivartan, was hit by a car on April 23 and
died of head injuries three days later. No arrests have been made and
police claim there were no witnesses to the incident in Vasant Kunj
market. Vasant Kunj (North) police said there was enough evidence that
it was an accident, but they were ready to "reinvestigate" if the family
sent a petition.
Balwani's daughter, Sonia, said her father had been filing RTI queries since 2001. After he retired from Delhi Transco
in 2010 as a manager, he had levelled graft charges against senior
government officials and politicians. "This earned him enemies. Before
that, in 2009, he had complained to the Indraprastha police station SHO
on getting threat calls,'' said Sonia, a physiotherapist. "He was
receiving so many threats that he stopped sharing them with us in the
past year."
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