CBI files closure report in RTI activist Satish Shetty murder case now
13 Aug 2014 5:26 AM IST
The CBI filed a closure report on Monday in the sensational murder case of RTI activist Satish Shetty in Pune on 13 January, 2010, due to lack of ‘sufficient prosecutable evidence’ against any of the accused.
Shetty had used the RTI Act to expose the land scams involving leading real estate firm IRB Infrastructure and its subsidiary Aryan. In 2009, in his complaint he had claimed that forged documents had been used by these firms to acquire lands in the Taje and Pimploli villages along the Pune-Mumbai highway for a township project.
Then most of the sale deeds were cancelled and the local sub-registrar Ashwini Kshirsagar was suspended. The company officials blamed land brokers for the irregularities but Shetty’s effort didn’t go on vain and the township project was later scrapped.
Since then Shetty started receiving threat calls and in his complain in November 2009, he had sought police protection from the Pune rural police and claimed that the threat calls were originating from the chairman of IRB Infrastructure Virendra Mhaiskar. Unfortunately, his plea was turned down and he was not given protection. Two months later, he was brutally stabbed to death while he was on a morning walk at Talegaon area.
Shetty had used the RTI Act to expose the land scams involving leading real estate firm IRB Infrastructure and its subsidiary Aryan. In 2009, in his complaint he had claimed that forged documents had been used by these firms to acquire lands in the Taje and Pimploli villages along the Pune-Mumbai highway for a township project.
Then most of the sale deeds were cancelled and the local sub-registrar Ashwini Kshirsagar was suspended. The company officials blamed land brokers for the irregularities but Shetty’s effort didn’t go on vain and the township project was later scrapped.
Since then Shetty started receiving threat calls and in his complain in November 2009, he had sought police protection from the Pune rural police and claimed that the threat calls were originating from the chairman of IRB Infrastructure Virendra Mhaiskar. Unfortunately, his plea was turned down and he was not given protection. Two months later, he was brutally stabbed to death while he was on a morning walk at Talegaon area.
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