Fed up of police harassment, RTI activist hangs himself

Updated On: 26 March, 2014 06:30 PM IST | | Salil Urunkar

<p>In his suicide note, Vilas Baravkar blamed several top-ranking cops and his own relatives for the circumstances leading him to end his life. The policemen, he stated, connived with a bank’s top brass operating a land mafia in Chakan</p>

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Fed up of police harassment, RTI activist hangs himself

RTI activist Vilas Dattatreya Baravkar committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan on Tuesday morning at his residence in Chakan, 33 km from Pune.

Relatives console Vilas Baravkar’s wife; his family has said that their lives are also under threat from the “influential people”. Baravkar (below) had police protection for the past three years. Pics/Mohan Patil

In a suicide note written on a stamp paper, Baravkar blamed several senior police officials, stating that they connived with many of his own relatives, and some board directors of a cooperative bank who were caught in scam allegations following an expose by him a few years ago.