Instead, an attempt on his life was made allegedly at the behest of Principal Secretary Navtej Singh, and other department officials during the Mayawati government.
He started a hunger strike in Lucknow hoping the Akhilesh Yadav government would pay heed to his demands for a reply on his pending RTI application; a criminal investigationinto the corruptions charges; and act against miscreants but instead was admitted to a psychiatric ward.
In the same year, he scored All India 17th rank in GATE that assured him a seat in his desired stream at any top technological institute.
He showed interest in social development from his early years and took initiative in establishing a "Library" and "Adult education center" at Aligarh.
[1][4] He found serious discrepancies: Rahi complained to his seniors and also informed Bhuvneesh Kumar, a District Magistrate of Muzaffaranagar, about the irregularities.
[8] Rinku Singh filed a Right to Information (RTI) application on 28 November 2007, but never received a reply within the mandatory period of 30 days.
Police arrested nine people, including Mukesh Chaudhary, a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, and Ashok Kashyap, an assistant accountant at the welfare department.
[8] After Rahi was attacked, an inquiry committee was set up under Alka Tandon, director of the social welfare department – Meerut.
[11] On 28 March 2012, the Government of Uttar Pradesh formed a two-member committee, chaired by the Meerut commissioner, to probe Rahi's allegations.
[14][15] He said that senior officials of the police department had refused to co-operate with him after he provided them with details of the scam, and that RTI requests had not been honoured.