For filing RTIs to expose financial

Nanjibhai Rajkot, 9 March Clubbed to

irregularities in the developmental
Sondarva Gujarat 2018 death
works undertaken in a village[8]

Exposed MGNREGA scama in

Gram Panchayat of Uttar
Dinajpur district of West Bengal,
disseminated Information to job
card holders, whose bank accounts
19 Nov
Md Tahiruddin West Bengal Murdered were used for withdrawing money
2016
in name of fake projects. He was
working under the organization
PACT Org as a volunteer, it is an
organization working in the field of
Transparency and anti-corruption

Mehta used RTI to

15 May [9] expose NREGA related scams.
Lalit Mehta Jharkhand Killed
2008 Fought for the social audit
of NREGA

Sought information on the nexus

among officers, politicians,
Kameshwar 7 June
Jharkhand Killed[3] contractors and middlemen
Yadav 2008
in NREGA related irrigation projects
in Deori.

4 June
Venkatesh Karnataka
2009

13 Jan
Satish Shetty Maharashtra Killed[10]
2010

Arun Sawant Maharashtra 2 Jan 2010 Killed[11]

Vishram Laxman 11 Feb

Gujarat Killed[12]
Dodiya 2010

Bihar Killed[13]
Shashidhar 14 Feb
Mishra 2010

Andhra 11 April
Sola Ranga Rao Killed[12]
Pradesh 2010

Vitthal Gite Maharashtra 4/21/2010 Killed[14]

Dattatraya Patil Maharashtra 5/22/2010 Killed[15]

Used RTI to expose illegal mining

in the Gir Forest area. BJP MP
Amit Jethwa Gujarat 7/20/2010 Killed[16] Dinu Boga arrested by CBI in this
case. Earlier Gujarat police had
given clean chit to Dinu Boga.

Vijay Pratap
(alias Babbu Uttar Pradesh 7/25/2010 Killed[17]
Singh)

Ramdas
Maharashtra 8/27/2010 Killed[18]
Ghadegaonkar

2 October
Sonu Haryana Killed[19]
2011

3 February Exposed corruption by contractors

Niyamat Ansari Jharkhand Killed[1]
2011 in work under MNREGA.[1]

Amit Kapasia Gujarat 12/29/2011 Killed[20]

Madhya
Shehla Masood 8/16/2011 Killed[21]
Pradesh

S 1 October
Tamil Nadu Killed[22]
Bhuvaneswaran 2012
 Killed
11 May (reason
Nadeem Saiyed Gujarat
2011 possibly
unrelated)[23]

Killed
12 August (reason
Ramvilas Singh Bihar
2011 possibly
unrelated)[24]

V
Tamil Nadu 8/19/2010 Killed(?)[25]
Balasubramanian

Filed several RTI queries with the

25 Feb Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation
Premnath Jha Mumbai, Virar Killed[26]
2012 seeking details of several
construction projects

Karnataka, 12 January
Vasudeva Adiga Killed[27]
Udupi 2013

Lawyer; Persisted with a legal case

Bihar,
exposing "irregularities" in the
Ratnauli
Ram Kumar 23 March implementation of NREGA welfare
Village, Killed[2]
Thakkur 2013 scheme in his village. Earlier, used
Muzzafarpur
RTI and exposed fraud involving
District
sarpanch (village head).[2]

Uttra
25 May
Sanjay Tyagi Pradesh, Killed [28]
2014
Meerut

Strangled
Maharashtra, 19–21 and then Exposed illegal sand
Sandeep Kothari
Nagpur June 2015 burned to mining and land grabbing
death[29]

Stabbed to
Mukesh Dube Morena, 26 Exposed corruption in Panchayats
Death[30][31]
Madhya September
 Pradesh 2017

Chhattisgarh, 7 July
Ramesh Agarwal Shot[32]
Raigarh, 2012