Re: [HumJanenge] Professional blackmailers give activists a bad name

Dear Manish

As activists we give a damn about citizens blackmailing PIOs and
officers. What we are concerned about is blackmailers using RTI to
secure privileged information to blackmail other fellow citizens - ie.
the 3rd parties.

PMK

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:47 PM, manish dixit
<manish_dixit1100@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dwar all
>
> I fullly agreed with this. In fact I came across a large number of RTI activists in Bhopal, whose basic purpose of filing RTI is to blackmail officer concerned. In few cases, I also saw that applicant settling affairs just before hearing in the office of State Information Commission of Madhya Pradesh. The group should also expose such blakmailers.
> regards
> Manish Dixit
>
> --- On Wed, 10/11/10, PMK1504 <humjanenge.owner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: PMK1504 <humjanenge.owner@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [HumJanenge] Professional blackmailers give activists a bad name
>> To: "HumJanenge" <HumJanenge@googlegroups.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, 10 November, 2010, 5:41 PM
>> Dear members
>>
>> The term "RTI activist" is now a dirty word. Activists are
>> treated
>> with suspicion and like scum because of the rotten apples.
>> Examples
>> abound of mafia mouthpieces who describe themselves as RTI
>> activists
>> but are actually blackmailers and extortionists like the
>> late Amit
>> Jethwa or fronts for controversial IPS officers with murky
>> pasts now
>> posing as RTI saints.
>>
>> Here is another example of this phenomena.
>> http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article876895.ece
>>
>> PMK
>>
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