Right To Information (RTI) activists claim BMC has shared their addresses and numbers with the very same influential builders they had complained about. This paper had reported how BMC chief Ajoy Mehta was left red-faced after RTI activists sent him a list of corrupt civic officials. Now, these crusaders against corruption claim they were bombarded with calls offering bribes to withdraw complaints against illegal constructions.

The activists alleged that municipal officials had leaked their contact numbers in a bid to trap them in corruption cases. Whatever the truth in the unfortunate skirmish between RTI activists and the BMC, the fact that activists allege that they are getting a huge number of calls from unknown numbers asking them to settle cases, certainly needs looking into.