The Commissionerate Police for Bhubaneswar-Cuttack has filed case against three Right To Information activists who alleged that 74 police personnel were deployed for protection of V.K. Pandian, Chairman 5T (Transformational Initiatives), and close aide of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Three RTI activist Pradip Pradhan, Prakash Dash, and Srikant Pakal have been booked under section 419, 420, 465, 468, 469, 471, 505 (1)(a)(b)/34 of IPC for spreading ‘fake news’. The case has been filed in city’s Saheed Nagar Police Station.
On March 30, RTI activists held a press conference in Bhubaneswar and informed that number police personnel deployed around Mr. Pandian was unusually high and they quoted purported information obtained by exercise of RTI Act.