Bhubaneswar, April 6 -- The security threat to Mr. VK Pandian, Chairman of 5T and Nabeen Odisha, is bigger than that of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik!!

Hard to believe it certainly is. But that is precisely what the Twin City Commissionerate of Police would like you to believe. Three days after RTI activists Pradip Pradhan, Srikant Pakal and Prakash Das produced a document purported to be a reply to an RTI query filed by Das seeking information on the number of police personnel deployed for the security of Mr. Pandian at a press conference, the Commissionerate Police suddenly woke up to the fact that the threat perception of Mr. Pandian is serious enough to seek exemption under Sec 8 (1) (g) of the RTI Act, 2005. In a letter addressed to...