Udupi: RTI activist's wife to undertake fast if assault-accused not arrested


Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Mar 12: Poornima Shankar Shanthi, wife of RTI activist Shankar Shanthi, threatened to undertake indefinite hunger strike in front of the office of the Udupi district deputy commissioner from Monday onward, if main accused in the assault on her husband are not arrested by then.

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday March 11, she said that her husband, Shankar Shanthi, has been organizing agitations against injustices meted out to common people. He always honestly strived to implement laws and rules, she said.

"On February 20, 2021, my husband was confined to a kitchen of Kalikamba temple near our house after which he was tortured which could have accounted for his life. I rushed to the spot after hearing his wails and saw that my husband was lying unconscious in a pool of blood. He was later admitted into the Aljjarkad hospital. When I went there after hearing his wails, a person was standing at the door of the kitchen. Still, I went in and saw that my husband was injured in his limbs and head. He was attacked because he was working honestly for finding solutions to various problems in the capacity as social activist and as an RTI worker. Manjappa Poojary filed a false complaint in the police station, saying that my husband broke the window glass of the temple and attacked others. Even after 19 days of the incident, main accused, Manjappa Poojary, Shantaram Shetty, Prasad Acharya and Diwakar Acharya have not been arrested," she explained.

Poornima Shankar Shanthi and her children, with the support of Billawa organizations, have decided to organize hunger strike in front of the office of the deputy commissioner if the main accused are not arrested in the next two days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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  • Pavan, Mlr

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    RTI activist Baliga murder culprit still out on bail

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  • Kuttappa, Coorg

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    RTI activist is more like blackmailing the system.... When single activist go against system it don't help common people, it's just understanding of how much divided among themselves... Things can go wrong Family has to suffer. (My understanding about RTI activist after seeing some doing this )

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  • sri_elder, Karkala

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    yes government should arrest all the accused.. and court should decide who made mistakes.

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  • Rahul, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    Before we are watching these kind of things in reel life but nowadays it's happening in our day today life. Satyameva jayathe.

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  • Monty Dotor, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    People should stop donating to places where money is misused for assault and murder, these places can no longer be called religious if such incidents take place.God's abode should be always pure.

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  • Prakrithi, Mangalur

    Fri, Mar 12 2021

    Yes. Theres no fear of god bt only prevailing the greed . Ppl go out of faith n give smthing frm deir profit which they earned by gods grace dey think. But when devil of greed sits on the head of the main ppl, dey kp on squeezing money by diff means. No one shld question. If questions then, he/she is banned and his/her name will b publicly spoilt by the ward heads.

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