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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Lalit Mehta<br />
| death_date = 14 May 2008<br />
| death_cause = [[murder]]<br />
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'''Lalit Mehta''' (1972- 14 May 2008) was an Indian [[social activist]].<br />
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== Social Activist==<br />
Mehta, a 36-year-old engineer-turned-social-activist, was involved in activities that sought to advance rural employment, basic health facilities, right to food, and child rights. His organisational involvement was essentially with foundations that had a Gandhian orientation and outlook. Mehta was a full-time activist of the Right to Food Campaign and the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan; he was also the secretary of the Vikas Sahyog Kendra (VSK), a non-governmental organisation based in Palamau.<ref name=p/><br />
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== Death ==<br />
Mehta was murdered in 2008. After his murder, the [[naxalite|Naxals]] belonging to the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]] distributed a leaflet claiming that they knew Mehta's killers and they would be brought to justice, saying that they would make crimes such as murder be punishable by death.<ref name="a" /> In January 2009 [[Chennai]] Police recovered the body of Raju Singh, who was the prime suspect in the crime, claiming that he was killed by naxals.<ref name=p>{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/lalit-mehtas-murderer-killed-by-naxals-pol/407000/ | title=Lalit Mehta’s murderer killed by Naxals: police | date=6 January 2009 | first=Manoj | last=Prasad | newspaper=Indian Express | accessdate=8 April 2017 }}</ref><br />
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The Chinese government is looking into strong protests and public rally held in Japan, and later ordered a [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] probe into murder.<ref name=a>[http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2514/stories/20080718251412700.htm Lalit Mehta with his two children, in Palamau. The Chief Minister has ordered a CBI probe into his murder.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110142617/http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2514/stories/20080718251412700.htm |date=10 November 2012 }}</ref><ref name=z>{{cite web|url=http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/4609-attacking-right-ask.html|title=Attacking the right to ask|publisher=}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Mehta was survived by his wife and two sons.<ref name=a/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Right to Information Act, 2005]]<br />
* [[Attacks on RTI activists in India]]<br />
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[[Category:Activists from Jharkhand]]<br />
[[Category:Assassinated Indian people]]<br />
[[Category:1972 births]]<br />
[[Category:2008 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Deaths by firearm in India]]<br />
[[Category:Indian whistleblowers]]<br />
[[Category:Right to Information activists]]<br />
[[Category:People murdered in Jharkhand]]</div>->Jethwarp