HARIDWAR: An FIR for murder has been filed against two associates of RTI activist Pankaj Lamba and another person for his death on Friday on the outskirts of Haridwar. The 50-yearold was killed at a party, when he showed his licensed pistol to a16-year-old and she is believed to have accidentally fired, fatally hitting Lamba in the neck. Lamba had blown the lid off Uttarakhand’s SC/ST scam, estimated to be over Rs 350 crore.
According to wife Jyoti, Lamba’s friends Manav and Kasim came to their house on Friday and asked him to stop a “theft at his land”. He left with them. The three were later said to be at a party at the girl’s residence. Brother Arun told police that Lamba had received a threat two days ago from the mining mafia in the area.