WHISTLEBLOWERS TO GET SECURITY: GOVT

MUMBAI: Social workers, RTI activists and whistleblowers who receive threat will now be given police protection immediately, the Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. Additional government pleader Nitin Deshpande told a division bench of Justices V M Kanade and K S Shriram that a government resolution dated August 13, 2013, states that police protection would be given immediately to any social worker, RTI activist and whistleblower who filed an application that he has received a threat to his life.