Updated On: 13 February, 2024 06:29 AM IST | Mumbai | Samiullah Khan
Despite open threat to kill activist in front of his family for seeking info about govt employee’s alleged shenanigans, cops refuse to file case

The office where Santosh Sonawane works as a clerk, (right) CCTV footage of Santosh Sonawane at RTI activist Yogesh Sonawane’s doorstep in December last year
A clerk who works at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat office (CMO) in Konkan Bhavan, allegedly threatened to kill an RTI activist who has been pursuing information related to him through RTI. The clerk allegedly reached the house of the activist at Samta Nagar in Kandivli with the help of the address mentioned in the
RTI copy and threatened to kill the activist in front of his family. The activist and his family say they are living in fear because of the threat, and have filed a complaint at the Samta Nagar police station; but the cops instead of filing the FIR have only filed a non-cognisable offence.
Consequently, the activist wrote a letter to Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the deputy commissioner revenue officer of the department concerned, demanding suspension, a departmental inquiry and strict action.