Patna:
A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot and seriously wounded on Friday by some assailants in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, police said.
"RTI activist Razi Hasan was battling for life at a hospital in Muzaffarpur, about 70 km from Patna. It was a murderous attack on him," a police official said.
Two people, suspected to be involved in the attack, have been arrested.
Mahendra Yadav, another RTI activist, said that Mr Hasan was repeatedly threatened by some people after he exposed their misdeeds.
"Hasan complained three times to the local police that he was facing threat to his life but they hardly initiated any action," Yadav claimed.
During the last one year, nearly a dozen RTI activists were attacked, assaulted and harassed across Bihar. In December 2011, an RTI activist, Ram Vilas Singh was shot dead in Lakhisarai district, while an activist was assaulted in Rohtas district last month, sources said.