JOIN USSocial activist Nikhil Dey and four others have been acquitted in an RTI-related case a month after they were convicted by a lower court.
The court had held them guilty of criminal trespass and causing simple hurt in a 19-year-old RTI-related case in Harmara village.
The activists — Dey, Naurti Bai, Ram Karan and Chotu Lal — have now been acquitted by the Additional District Judge (ADJ) court in Kishangarh.
They were earlier sentenced to four months in jail by a court in Ajmer after it held them guilty. However, all of them were released on bail soon after the conviction.
The four RTI activists had appealed against their conviction when the complainants approached them, offering to withdraw the case. The complainants stated they wanted to put an end to “continual and unnecessary dispute”.
The formal application, signed by the complainants, was to be placed in the ADJ court, requesting the withdrawal and “compounding” under Section 320 of the CRPC; (deemed acquittal) of the case.
The application stated that Om Prakash and Manisha (brother and niece of the erstwhile sarpanch) would withdraw the case to conclude the matter.