Police seek to brush off Karnataka RTI activist's murder, family says No | Expert analysis

An RTI activist named Murthy was murdered on December 23, 2022, after he threatened to expose the scams of the village panchayat in Kanakapura. Even as the police tried to brush it off as murder following a family dispute, his relative and advocate Shilpa Rani filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission alleging that it was a murder due to his RTI activism and not a murder following a family dispute as alleged. In this episode of TNIE Talk Room, we have Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Director, Venkatesh Nayak and advocate Shilpa Rani to provide more insights on the murder of RTI activist Murthy.