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Achimuthu Shankar is a former lower division clerk in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption, which he joined in 1991. In 2008, he allegedly made public sensational information which included taped conversation between S. K. Upadhyay, then Director of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption, and L. K. Tripathi, then Chief Secretary, through the Deccan Chronicle English daily newspaper.[1] Following the leak of sensitive information in public, the state government of the Tamil Nadu state appointed a commission headed by Judge P. Shanmugam to probe the leak. Shankar was found guilty by the commission of inquiry. However, Shankar denied the allegations and said, charges were false and he was contesting them in courts. He also said that, he was made to face the third degree torture and was forced to bear witness against some officials. He was later released on bail.[1]
In mid-2010, He published a blog post of information collected through the Right to information act and he was arrested on the charges of road rage next day. He said, "The next day I was arrested on some false charges of road rage. I was expecting them to [arrest me]. They did not disappoint".[1][2]
Shankar is an admirer of V. Prabhakaran, chief of LTTE. The website had a picture of V. Prabhakaran on one side and a picture of a cowboy with a whip on the other side of the header.[2] He continued to publish articles along with contesting the suspension of him from Department of Vigilance and Anti-corruption. He is called the Tamil's Julian Assange.[3][1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Subramanian, N. Sundaresha (2014-02-08). "Achimuthu Sankar: A loose canon or a homegrown Assange?". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Court blocks Tamil 'Assange' Shankar's website savukku.net". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ↑ "'Savukku' Shankar: Is he India's Julian Assange?". Retrieved 13 September 2014.