Lalit Mehta was and Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 RTI

RTI

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 activist, who was killed brutally near Palamau on May 14, 2008.

He was a prominent member of The Right to Food Campaign, working in the Vikas Sahyog Kendra in Palamau District and was using his Right to information to expose scams in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an Indian job guarantee scheme, enacted by legislation on August 25, 2005...

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The Jharkhand

Jharkhand

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 government looking into strong protests and public rally held in Ranchi

Ranchi

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 later ordered a CBI

Central Bureau of Investigation

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 probe into murder.

After his murder, the naxals

Naxalite

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 belonging Communist Party of India (Maoist)

Communist Party of India (Maoist)

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 distributed a leaflet claiming that they know the killers of Lalit Mehta and they will be brought to justice saying that we will make the perpetrators of heinous crimes such as murder pay with their lives, which created a flutter among rank and file of police and government.Later in January 2009, Ranchi Police recovered body of one Raju Singh, who was prime accused in murder of Lalit Mehta, claiming that he was killed by naxals.

Lalit Mehta is survived by a wife and two sons.

National RTI Forum

National RTI Forum

National RTI Forum is an organization based in Lucknow.The group gives “RTI Gallantry Award”s named after murdered RTI activists Satish Shetty, Shashidhar Mishra and Lalit Mehta. In 2010 the awards were given for the first time to a slain RTI activist Amit Jethwa, a forest officer Sanjiv...

has honored his martyrdom by naming an award after him as Lalit Mehta RTI Gallantry award