{"id":38616,"date":"2015-08-10T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38616"},"modified":"2015-08-10T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T11:46:52","slug":"witness-act-may-cover-whistle-blowers-rti-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/witness-act-may-cover-whistle-blowers-rti-activists","title":{"rendered":"Witness act may cover whistle-blowers, RTI activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37785\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Bombay-High-court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37785\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-gives-bail-to-retired-cop-in-harassment-case\/bombay-high-court-16\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Bombay-High-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bombay High court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Bombay-High-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Bombay-High-court.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37785 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Bombay-High-court.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Witness act may cover whistle-blowers, RTI activists\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Witness act may cover whistle-blowers, RTI activists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maharashtra government was considering inclusion of whistle-blowers and RTI activists in the proposed Witness Protection Act, it told the Bombay High Court today.<\/p>\n<p>While a policy to provide police protection to witnesses in sensitive cases was already in place, a legislation would be framed soon, additional government pleader Nitin Deshpande told the division bench of justices A S Okaand Revati Mohite-Dere.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the witnesses, the government was considering inclusion of RTI activists and whistle-blowers in the Act, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the government three months to frame the law, the High Court said until it came into effect, the police should provide protection to whistle-blowers and RTI activists upon request.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of protection of witnesses, whistle-blowers and activists was taken up suo moto (on its own) by the court after the murder of Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra government was considering inclusion of whistle-blowers and RTI activists in the proposed Witness Protection Act, it told the Bombay High Court today. 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