Looks like the BMC is resorting to one dirty trick after another in its war against the city's activists. In August, it outed whistleblowers to the very builders they had complained against. A month later, K-West (Andheri) officials put up banners labelling four activists as extortionists. Now, in yet another farce, the BMC has ordered the very K-West official against whom activists complained, to probe the issue.

An internal report submitted to former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Shailesh Gandhi stated that the banners had been put up at the behest of Prashant Gaikwad, assistant municipal commissioner (AMC) of K-West ward.