Eight months after civic chief Ajoy Mehta directed officials to prepare a list of 'frequent' Right To Information (RTI) users, activists have turned the tables and submitted list of 100 graft-tainted officials to CM Devendra Fadnavis, said a front page report in this paper.

This opens up a new front in the battle between BMC and RTI, an unfortunate war because there needs to be no two sides to this issue. Corruption has to be fought collectively, so to target activists or those who frequently complain is counterproductive. We have to agree that there may be activists who are using the RTI for extortion. That is a very real possibility. One can weed them out, investigate, and if guilty, complain and get them arrested for extortion.