AURANGABAD: A ‘RTI activist’ was arrested by City Chowk police for allegedly demanding Rs 15 lakh from a realtor for completing the documentation process related to a land that was recently bought by the latter in the vicinity of Hilal Colony.
The suspect — identified as Mir Faqar Ali Jaddi (50), a resident of Labour Colony — was produced before the local court on Thursday and has been remanded into judicial custody.
Jaddi was arrested from the complainant’s office in Town Hall area of the city soon after he accepted a bag containing Rs 1 lakh. The entire incident was caught on a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera.
City Chowk inspector Sambhaji Pawar said, “The accused had been filing RTI applications and objecting to the documentation process of the land purchased by the complainant.” TNN
