Mr. Ganeshchandra Panda, a 52 year old resident of Randha owned a shop at the village, but had recently got interested in RTI activism. He had started applying for information about different developmental works taken up in his panchayat area as he suspected irregularities and misappropriation of public money in these projects. Some miscreants in their area who were contractors of these developmental projects were irked by RTI applications filed by Mr. Panda in response to which he had received incriminating information against them. According to sources, Ganeshchandra Panda had gone out for his morning walk at round 5.30 a.m. His body was found in a pool of blood at NH-16 near Randha after one hour. A group of miscreants had allegedly attacked Ganesh with weapons such as an axe, sword and knife. The assailants had thrown the blood stained weapons into a nearby pond. The human rights defender's relatives have alleged that some miscreants in their area who were contractors of these developmental projects were irked by RTI applications filed by Ganeshchandra Panda as he had started getting information on their their nefarious activities through them.