Re: [rti4empowerment] Noida cops arrest RTI activist

Yes PEN is mightier than SWORD but we must remeber RTI is only a tool and for repairing the system , we require many tools and STAGRAH or Peaceful demonstration is another TOOL   or   say we use RTI only to correct the system wheather it works or not . Bimal Khemani RTI activist ALIGARH-202001 INDIA Mob:935-972-4625 --- On Sun, 16/1/11, DSouza Wilberious Evanglist <wilevades@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: DSouza Wilberious Evanglist <wilevades@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [rti4empowerment] Noida cops arrest RTI activist To: rti4empowerment@googlegroups.com, "M.K. Gupta" <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in> Date: Sunday, 16 January, 2011, 9:39 AM Dear all, I do not dispute the protest. Unnotified one becomes an unlawful assembly prompting police action. Would not an RTI Application  abetter alternative if registration was refused, seeking reasons therefor? After all pen is mightier than the sword!   Regards,   WEDS From: M.K. Gupta <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in> To: rti4empowerment@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, 16 January, 2011 9:07:55 Subject: [rti4empowerment] Noida cops arrest RTI activist Noida cops arrest RTI activist   TIMES NEWS NETWORK   Noida: Leading RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal and 50 other activists were allegedly beaten up by Noida Police for "causing disturbance'' outside the assistant registrar's office at Sector 33 in Noida on Friday. Kejriwal and seven others, including NRI Gaurav Bakshi, were arrested. However, when they were being taken to Dasna Jail after being produced in court, the police van returned midway and all charges against them were dropped. The police, however, described the chain of events as "normal'' and according to the rule book.    Kejriwal and another social activist, Swati, said Gaurav Bakshi, who recently returned from the US, and his wife had adopted a baby girl and wanted to get a birth registration done. "They were asked for a bribe of Rs 6,000, which Bakshi refused. So, they were refused a certificate. We decided to protest outside the registrar's office on Saturday. We were demonstrating peacefully near a parking lot when the Noida police, led by a DSP, charged at us all of a sudden. There were no female cops but even the women activists were not spared. They were beaten up with batons,'' claimed Swati. She said Kejriwal was slapped, while the other protesters were thrown on the ground and hit with batons.    Kejriwal, Bakshi and six others were arrested and produced before a city magistrate. "We had to detain the protesters as it was becoming a law and order problem. We did not misbehave with anyone,'' claimed a Sector 24 police station officer. "We acted according to the situation,'' said circle officer Vikas Tripathi.   FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: Arvind Kejriwal was protesting against an alleged demand for a bribe to give a birth certificate in Noida