MADHUBANI / PATNA: The police restored the charred body of RTI activists who were kidnapped, Buddhi Nath Jha alias Avinash Jha (23), from the bushes between the villages of Uri and Pali under the area of the Benipati police station in the Madhubani district on Friday night.
Jha, who is also a web portal reporter, has been kidnapped by four people near his home in Lohia Chowk on November 9 at night.
His body was handed over to the family after autopsy on Saturday.
His brother Chandra Shekhar has filed FIR thinking that Jha was kidnapped by the owner of the illegal health clinic he had defeated, the police said.
Jha has submitted a RTI application and reportedly wrote articles on its web portal on illegal and illegal clinics, hospitals and health care companies in their regions.
He has even handed over some petitions to Madhubani DM against such companies running without a license after where many of them are closed by administration or fined, the police source said.
When asked, Benipatti SDO Arun Kumar Singh on Saturday told this newspaper that the raids called them involved in Jha’s murder.
A police officer from Madhubani said Jha was strangled.
“It was revealed in postmortem.
The body was identified by a family member based on the ring he had on one of his fingers, a mole on his feet and the remnants of his shirts he had worn on November 9,” he said.
The clerk said he seemed to be killed in another place and the criminals burned his body there because the grass and bushes were also scorched.
The officer said two people, including people who run a private clinic, have been detained to be interrogated on Saturdays.
“Prima facie we suspect that Jha was killed because of His RTI activities which resulted in actions against several private clinics in Benipatti,” the officer said.
RTI Activists Killed at Dist Madhubani
