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Mehta, a 36-year-old engineer-turned-social-activist, was involved in activities that sought to advance rural employment, basic health facilities, right to food, and child rights. His organisational involvement was essentially with foundations that had a
Gandhian orientation and outlook. Mehta was a
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distributed a leaflet claiming that they knew Mehta's killers and they would be brought to justice, saying that they would make crimes such as murder be punishable by death. In
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full-time activist of the Right to Food
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Police recovered the body of Raju Singh, who was the prime suspect in the crime, claiming that he was killed by naxals.
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