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New Indian Express
6 days ago
- New Indian Express
Damoh RTI activist arrested for abetment after teacher dies by self-immolation over blackmail
BHOPAL: An RTI activist has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district for allegedly prompting a government primary school teacher to burn himself alive. While the middle-aged RTI activist Jitendra has been arrested on May 26, for mentally harassing and blackmailing primary school teacher Rajesh Tripathi, which allegedly prompted Tripathi to immolate self in Hatta town of Damoh district on May 15, more primary school teachers have approached the Damoh district police against the same RTI activist. According to informed sources, Bhatt had complained to the authorities alleging that the primary school teacher Tripathi got the government job by using a fake BEd degree. Police investigations revealed that the RTI activist was harassing and blackmailing Tripathi in the matter, to regularly get money from him. 'After forcing Tripathi to pay him around Rs 7 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, Bhatt had recently started demanding that the school teacher pay him half of his salary every month,' Damoh district police superintendent Shrutkirti Somwanshi told TNIE. Burdened by mounting debts worth over Rs 50 lakh taken from bank and private money lenders to construct a house as well as regularly pay money to Bhatt accompanied by continued threats by the RTI activist to get him sacked from the job over the fake degree, compelled Tripathi to burn himself alive while returning from Hatta town his village on May 25. He died during the course of treatment at hospital later, the SP-Damoh added.
New Indian Express
23-04-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Two Muslim men from Madhya Pradesh arrested for sharing 'offensive' social media posts about Pahalgam attack
BHOPAL: Two Muslim men have been arrested by police in Damoh district of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh, for allegedly sharing offensive social media posts related to the Damoh district police superintendent Shrutkirti Somvanshi told TNIE on Wednesday that two men were arrested from different places: Wasim Khan from Bhopal on Tuesday night, and Tanveer Qureshi from Damoh on Wednesday morning. Both men are aged between 35 and 40 years. While Tanveer is unemployed, police are probing the possibility of Wasim working for a Bhopal-headquartered regional news channel. The two men have been accused of sharing offensive social media posts which drew parallels between the killing of Indian tourists in Pahalgam and the past lynching of Muslims for not raising Hindu religious slogans. The posts came on the Damoh district police radar following specific inputs and continued social media monitoring by the cyber cell cops. Subsequently a FIR was registered against the two men by police on behalf of the state government at the Damoh Kotwali police station on Tuesday late night, under BNS Sections 353(2), 196, 299 and 3(5) which deal with statements/false information which could incite enmity between religious groups, promoting enmity between different groups, outraging religious feelings and crime with a common intent, the SP-Damoh added. The Damoh district police are now probing the prime origin of the somewhat similar social media post made by the two men on Tuesday after the Pahalgam attack, which killed 28 tourists, including an LIC branch manager from MP's Indore.
