RTI activist missing from east Delhi

NEW DELHI: An RTI activist, who is also a florist, went missing from near the Ghazipur flower market on Thursday morning. The activist Shiv Kumar Tiwari is a resident of Ghaziabad. The police, who the family claimed was slow to take action, was in the process of registering the case under sections of kidnapping, said DCP (east) Prabhakar on Friday.
Sources said the family had not received any ransom call till Friday evening. Cops said Tiwari had gone to the flower market in his car with his servant on Thursday morning. “He had said he going to meet some flower merchants. When he did not return after several hours, the family informed the police,’’ said an investigating officer.
Pratibha Tiwari, the activist’s wife, said, “My husband had been getting threats as he had carried out several sting operations, involving officials in NDMC, Delhi Police and MCD. “Strangers had been keeping a watch on Shiv’s NGO office too,” said Udit Tiwari, his brother.