JAMMU, Nov 9: A Right to Information (RTI) activist in the winter capital Jammu region has accused the wife of a minister in the NC-Congress coalition of threatening him with dire consequences if he didn’t stop pursuing a case allegedly involving her husband.
The activist had filed an application in the high court seeking directions to the vigilance commissioner to produce a letter written by Revenue minister, Raman Bhalla asking him to close a case against him in the Gulmarg land deal.
“There is no trouble in identifying the lady, she is Indira Bhalla, wife of the incumbent revenue minister, Raman Bhalla. First she sent a person she should not have and that person compelled my wife to talk to her while I was not at home…
She also repeatedly called on our landline phone…the tone of her conversation was highly obnoxious..so i dropped the receiver,” Prof S.K. Bhalla told Times Now.
“The whole aim of this was that I should not pursue the matter against her husband.”
Prof Bhalla has filed a complaint with the Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu.
Prof. Bhalla and another RTI activist have created a storm after filing a Public Interest Litigation in the High Court seeking prosecution senior IAS, IFS, IPS, KAS officers and politicians including ministers in corruption cases.
The professor last month also filed an application seeking directions to Commissioner of Vigilance to produce a copy of Demi-Official (DO) letter allegedly written by Raman Bhalla Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation to PL Gupta Commissioner of Vigilance recommending the closure of the case.
Congress member and state’s sports minister R.S. Chib said: “I have no knowledge of this as it is about somebody’s personal life. But I think anybody in any civilised society seeking information under RTI should not be threatened.”
