Police investigating RTI applications of dead activist

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Mar 23, 2016: The police are delving into the right to information applications filed by late Vinayak Baliga as part of the investigation into his alleged murder.  

The 51-year-old late  Baliga, an electrical contractor, was allegedly hacked to death by unknown assailants near his house in Car Street on March 21, Monday morning.

According to a police official, Baliga had filed many RTI applications in the last three years.  It includes on electrical issues, on building violations and some pertaining to temples.  The police said that they are going through the  applications to find leads to find the guilty.   Baliga was attacked by the assailants a few meters away from his house when he was going towards Tajmahal Hotel. The police could not gather much information from the images of CCTVs installed near the spot.