RTI latest weapon in Naxal hands: Information used for extortion

The Maoists in Jharkhand are using proxies to file Right to Information applications to gather details about government projects in order to target businessmen and contractors for extortion. Cops have recovered RTI documents from a training camp of the People's Liberation Front of India, once a faction of the CPI(Maoist), in Torpa forests, which have details of 30-odd government projects under Khunti district rural development agency, with names of contractors and estimated costs.

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