3 'RTI activists' held for extortion in Thane

Mumbai | Friday | 16th November, 2018

Summary:

They filed an RTI query with the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) about one his housing projects in Dombivli. "They demanded Rs 30 lakh from him in lieu of withdrawing the RTI application filed in the KDMC. He was also externed in 1998.Before the arrest of the trio, the AEC had arrested five persons, claiming to be RTI activists, for extorting builders in separate cases in Thane city. Two of them are former corporators of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). "The trio earlier collected a sum of Rs 4.70 lakh from the victim..