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| facebook | | | ![Kamayani Bali Mahabal]() | Subject: Murdered RTI activist had taken on Gir mining mafia On July 21, barely a fortnight after he filed a PIL in the Gujarat High Court seeking an end to illegal limestone mining along the Gir wildlife sanctuary, 36-year-old activist Amit Jethava was killed. He was shot from point blank range on a busy highway in Ahmedabad, minutes after he came out of his lawyer's office near the very court where he filed PILs year after year. Gujarat has the country's fourth largest limestone deposits, some 12,000 million metric tonnes spread over Kutch, Junagadh, Amreli, Banaskantha and Sabarkantha. Official estimates peg the state's current mining market to be worth well over Rs 500 crore a year but unofficial projections say it is much more. A complex nexus of politicians, influential businessmen, bureaucrats and goons controls the illegal slice of the mining business, overshadowing its legally allowed chunk. Some of Jethava's efforts using the RTI Act and PILs had changed things and sent politicians, the government and its babus scampering for cover. CONTD http://www.facebook.com/l/57fadk_wwCuoaHgKhrpD2gcUmNw;www.indianexpress.com/news/murdered-rti-activist-had-taken-on-gir-mining-mafia/653277/ | |
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