Attack on Gaya social activists, report sought
Based on a media report the Commission took suo-motu cognizance on the killing of two NGO workers, Mahesh and Sarita, near Gaya in Bihar on 26 January 2004.
The newspaper story quoted Sarita and Mahesh as having been shot dead by assailants on 24 January 2004. It said the two social workers had brought about a revolution in the obscure village of Shabdo in Gaya by helping in busting several rackets of looting and extortion. According to the report in the press, the duo had done good work in the Naxalite dominated Bihar-Jharkhand border areas and it is suspected that local mafia were behind the attack.
The newspaper story quoted Sarita and Mahesh as having been shot dead by assailants on 24 January 2004. It said the two social workers had brought about a revolution in the obscure village of Shabdo in Gaya by helping in busting several rackets of looting and extortion. According to the report in the press, the duo had done good work in the Naxalite dominated Bihar-Jharkhand border areas and it is suspected that local mafia were behind the attack.