Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest to RTI activist and whistleblower Satyendra Kumar Jain of Sagar. Jain has been accused of abetment to suicide, extortion,and the SC/ST Act.

A division bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S.C. Sharma passed the order while hearing Jain’s Special Leave Petition challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s refusal to grant him anticipatory bail.

In his petition, Jain claimed that through his RTI applications, he had allegedly exposed large-scale corruption in the Sagar Municipal Corporation's government contracts.

His complaints led to investigations by the Lokayukta and the EOW against several officials. Following the suicide of an auditor who allegedly consumed celphos tablets, the police booke

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