Satish Shetty Murder

CBI today decided to re-investigate the murder of Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty in view of new evidence recovered during the searches at the offices and residence of a prominent builder in January.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told a court in Maharashtra that it has found no evidence against 11 people accused of killing Right To Information activist Satish Shetty in 2010, just three days after it was given four weeks to investigate what could have been a possible motive for the murder.

Back in 2010, the Bombay High Court, while hearing the murder case of Right to Information (RTI) activist Satish Shetty in Maharashtra, ordered the state government to provide police protection to the many activists who complain of threats after filing applications under the RTI Act.

Infrastructure firm Ideal Road Builders (IRB) has been raided by the CBI today in Pune. The CBI is probing possible connections between IRB and the murder of right to information activist Satish Shetty.

Shares of the company sank over 15 per cent to Rs 141.80 on the BSE.

A sessions court on Thursday gave the green signal to the CBI to conduct polygraph tests on 12 persons in connection with the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. These 12 include an IRB official and five suspects, who were earlier arrested by the local crime branch of the rural police.

A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths swooped down on Lonavla police station on Monday evening and seized a laptop and the hard disk of a computer. A CBI official said that the seized items were crucial evidence in the investigation of RTI activist and whistle-blower Satish Shetty's murder case. Shetty, a Talegaon-based activist w...

Whistleblower Satish Shetty was murdered in Pune on Wednesday.

Right to Information activist and associate of Anna Hazare, Satish Shetty was murdered in Talegaon near Pune on Wednesday morning.

CBI today decided to re-investigate the murder of Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty in view of new evidence recovered during the searches at the offices and residence of a prominent builder in January.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told a court in Maharashtra that it has found no evidence against 11 people accused of killing Right To Information activist Satish Shetty in 2010, just three days after it was given four weeks to investigate what could have been a possible motive for the murder.

Back in 2010, the Bombay High Court, while hearing the murder case of Right to Information (RTI) activist Satish Shetty in Maharashtra, ordered the state government to provide police protection to the many activists who complain of threats after filing applications under the RTI Act.

Infrastructure firm Ideal Road Builders (IRB) has been raided by the CBI today in Pune. The CBI is probing possible connections between IRB and the murder of right to information activist Satish Shetty.

Shares of the company sank over 15 per cent to Rs 141.80 on the BSE.

A sessions court on Thursday gave the green signal to the CBI to conduct polygraph tests on 12 persons in connection with the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. These 12 include an IRB official and five suspects, who were earlier arrested by the local crime branch of the rural police.

A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths swooped down on Lonavla police station on Monday evening and seized a laptop and the hard disk of a computer. A CBI official said that the seized items were crucial evidence in the investigation of RTI activist and whistle-blower Satish Shetty's murder case. Shetty, a Talegaon-based activist w...

Whistleblower Satish Shetty was murdered in Pune on Wednesday.

Right to Information activist and associate of Anna Hazare, Satish Shetty was murdered in Talegaon near Pune on Wednesday morning.