A Right To Information (RTI) activist, who also moonlights as a police informer, has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court against a police inspector last week, alleging that he detained, stripped, handcuffed and subjecting him to three days of merciless thrashing for no known reason in October 2011.u00a0

On the receiving end: Vinod Raghunath Sonkamble, who filed a writ petition in High Court alleging an inspector of the Crime Branch (Unit VII) tortured him for three days in 2011. Pic/Datta Kumbhar