'RTI activist Amit Jethva is martyr': Law Minister of India

New Delhi: Calling Right To Information (RTI) activists who have been killed mar tyrs,law minister Veerapp a Moily on Monday said an act meant to protect whistleblowers will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament beginning mid-November.

The RTI activists like Amit Jethava and Satish Shetty are martyrs.I salute them, Moily said while inaugurating a two-day conference on RTI organized by the Central Information Commission.

Social activist Satish Shetty,who had blown the whistle on a series of land scams in and around Talegaon,Lonavala and Pimpri-Chinchwad near Pune,was murdered near his residence in January.Amit Jethava was killed near the Gujarat HC in Ahmedabad in July after he raised his voice against illegal mining in the Gir forests area.These RTI activists have contributed a lot to the country, Moily said.