Baravkar committed suicide in his village Chakan, leaving behind a suicide note.
Ujwala Baravkar, widow of Vilas Baravkar, an RTI activist who committed suicide in 2014, wants investigation into her husband's suicide scrapped. Reason? Mental, physical, financial and social harassment that she and her family are facing due to the way the probe is being conducted.
Baravkar committed suicide in his village Chakan, leaving behind a suicide note. In the suicide note, written on a Rs 100 stamp paper, he blamed senior police officers, politicians and some other people for driving him to end his life.
Baravkar was involved in a series of anti-corruption activities by using RTI and was also member of several organisations. In a letter marked to the home minister, senior officers in Pune district, under whose jurisdiction Chakan comes, Ujwala stated that the police had been constantly asking for reasons behind his suicide.
This, she alleged, had been done with several people who were known to her husband. The police were doing this in a way that it was creating further problem. She even went on to state that RTI applications seeking progress of the investigation into her husband's suicide were not being entertained. In view of all this, the investigation be scrapped, she urged. When dna contacted Ujwala, she refused to talk.
"The police should talk properly to family members of those who are deceased or have committed suicide. In this case, he left a suicide note. This kind of a letter only shows that the investigation is not proceeding in the right direction. People file RTI applications and it is only then that the police start investigation," said Vijay Kumbhar, an RTI activist from Pune.
Jay Jadhav, superintendent of police, Pune Rural, was not available for comment despite repeated attempts. Mobile number of G Gosavi, senior police inspector of Chakan, was switched off.
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