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Oct 20, 2011 CBI quizzes AMU V-C over financial irregularities: "the V-C made the AMU pay his income tax and also violated the varsity's rules by transferring Rs 8 crore of Provident Fund money from State Bank of India to Shreyas Gramin Bank. AMU funds were also allegedly misused for interior decoration of his residence."
Oct 16, 2011 Civil Services: A tool of occupation?: "Particularly in nation like India and states like Kashmir where corruption is rampant, these things work much better."
Oct 16, 2011 पाकुड़ के पूर्व डीएसई जेल भेजे गये: "पद का दुरुपयोग कर 17 शिक्षकों को सेवानिवृति के बाद भी सेवा में दिखाकर पिछली तिथि से अवैध रूप से सेलेक्शन ग्रेड एवं प्रोन्नति आदि देकर सरकारी कोष से अवैध रूप से सरकारी राशि की निकासी एवं गबन करने का आरोप है।"
Oct 14, 2011 Palike mum on auction of felled trees: "The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike seems to be in the dark over the revenue it generated from auctioning of trees felled for “development projects.”"
Oct 14, 2011 Tamil Nadu Public Service members raided: "members received Rs. 30-40 lakhs for key postings"
Oct 12, 2011 Corruption: We need a whistleblower act for babus to say NO: "“Today we are facing a testing time in the history of our nation. There has been erosion of people’s faith in the government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy, including the police force, has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of civil servants is being questioned.”"
Oct 11, 2011 Slain officer demanded bribe from oil mafia: CBI: "Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt to death on eve of Republic Day this year, by suspected oil mafia goons, had allegedly, ''demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from his attackers,''"
Oct 11, 2011 Government's credibility at its 'lowest': CAG Vinod Rai: ""The governance is at its lowest ebb. The morale of the civil servant is low. The credibility of the government is at its lowest. It's a strong statement but it is harsh reality. And hence because of all this the decision making has become a causalty," said Rai who has given audit reports coming down heavily on Union government departments.", ""Today, we are facing a testing time in the history of our Nation. The quality of governance is below par and subject to severe criticism. There has been an erosion of people's faith in government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy including the Police force has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of the civil servants are being questioned,""
Oct 11, 2011 IAS officer suspended for corruption, 1st time in India: "Radhakrishnan grossly violated rules” in over 300 cases as chairperson of the Board of Revenue in which he gave consent to private people and even industries to illegally purchase tribal persons’ lands."
Oct 9, 2011 Babus and the 2G scam fallout: "it is not difficult to understand the import of these few lines in the note since it is the non-auction of the ‘start-up spectrum’ that the CAG has estimated could have cost the exchequer more than Rs 1,75,000 crores. And any guesses who the then FM was? Well, if you still can’t understand the lingo of the bureaucrats, let me tell you: he is the present Home Minister."
Oct 9, 2011 71 CWG-related works under CVC scanner for alleged graft: "The 71 cases exclude 26 cases worth Rs 3,316.58 crore being probed by the CVC. Of the 26 projects, six were done by Public Works Department, five by OC, four by MCD, three each by NDMC and CPWD, two each by DDA, India Tourism Development Corporation and one by RITES."
Oct 8, 2011 Case against Puducherry education minister for exam fraud: "The district crime branch filed a criminal case against Kalyanasundaram, exam hall supervisor P Adavan and office assistant M Rajini Kanth, who allegedly helped the minister to carry out the impersonation plan. A school dropout, Kalyanasundaram is a first-time legislator in Puducherry and became education minister and holds the IT and transport portfolios as well."
Oct 8, 2011 It's criminal neglect: CSR Director on encephalitis: "The Centre for Social Research Director says the disease could have been prevented had there been a political will."
Oct 8, 2011 Lady IAS officer quizzed by CBI, house raided: "The central agency has found alleged irregularities in certain leases given to OMC between 2005 and 2009, when Srilakshmi was the Secretary of Andhra Pradesh Industries Department."
Oct 7, 2011 Arvind Speech at Jantar Mantar_Protest against Govt. Lokpal Bill
Oct 7, 2011 Former KPSC chairman Krishna arrested: "Former Karnataka Information Commissioner H N Krishna was today arrested in connection with charges of irregularities and malpractice in the selection of gazetted probationers during his tenure as Chairman of the state Public Service Commission during 1998-2004.", "A CID inquiry had found alleged discrimination, fabrication of documents, fraud and criminal intimidation among others in various stages of selection process of gazetted probationers (Group A and B posts) during 1998, 1999 and 2004."
Oct 7, 2011 Loan scam: Top brass chargesheeted: "CBI has filed charge sheets in four cases registered by it last year against senior officials of a public sector bank and a private company for allegedly receiving kickbacks in sanctioning of loans."
Oct 7, 2011 Close encounters of an I.A.S. officer : "This is story about the definition of corruption which each individual must come up with"
Oct 6, 2011 ‘PDS kerosene scam’ rocks Assembly: "“Eight lakh quintals of wheat is coming every month to Punjab under PDS but is not going to the poor. It is being cornered by flour mills in connivance with government officials. We demand a CBI inquiry into the whole PDS scam,”", "The Indian Express, in a three-part investigative series carried out in August 2009, had revealed how PDS kerosene in Punjab was not reaching the poor but and being diverted by the oil mafia."
Oct 5, 2011 Reuters: UPDATE 1-India police file charges in bribes-for-loans case
Oct 5, 2011 Delhi: Ex-LIC CEO Ramchandran Nair booked for loan scam: "The CBI has filed chargesheets against former CEO and director of LIC housing corporation, Ramchandran Nair, LIC's secretary (investment) Naresh Kumar Chopra as well as several officials of public sector banks and private firms in one of the biggest scams to have hit the public sector in recent times."
Oct 5, 2011 Bribes-for-loans case:CBI files charge sheet against senior bank officials: "Chargesheets have been filed against former LIC Housing finance CEO Ramchandra Nair, the then General Manager of Bank of India R N Tayal, the then Deputy General Manager of Punjab National Bank Venkoba Gujjal and Rajesh Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director of private financial services firm Money Matters.", "According to the charge sheets, Nair took a bribe of Rs 16 lakh, Tayal of Rs 45 lakh and Gujjal of Rs 25 lakh."
Oct 4, 2011 Rot starts at top: Indicted IIT chiefs go scot-free: "Poor quality of engineers is not the only problem afflicting the IITs. The rot has set in from the top. At least two of its directors - Damodar Acharya of IIT-Kharagpur and A K Bhowmick of IIT-Patna - are still in office, despite the Central Bureau of Investigation's indictment in the past."
Oct 2, 2011 Gandhi family loyalist joins PMO
Oct 1, 2011 ‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’: "Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills of the Sitheri hills in Harur taluk, Dharmapuri district, in an apparent search for smuggled sandalwood. Over the next two days, government officers raped and humiliated 18 tribal women, beat up dozens of other unarmed villagers, tore down homes and polluted drinking water sources with diesel and the carcasses of village goats they butchered for dinner."
Sep 30, 2011 Lokayukta raids net five officers: "The officers whose residences were raided are S M Ramakrishna, Additional Chief Engineer, BWSSB, Bangalore, T Sriram, Executive Engineer, BWSSB, Bangalore, Ramalingaiah, Assistant Executive Engineer, PWD, Bangalore, Laxman Shivappa Goundi, Shirastedar, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Tahsildar office, Bagalkot and S Ramakrishnappa, Assistant Executive Engineer, Minor Irrigation sub division, Shimoga."
Sep 30, 2011 'To get project nod, green ministry babus hide facts': "ministry transferred two Indian Forest Service (IoFS) officials CD Singh and AK Rana for restoring to alleged violation of norms for clearing projects."
Sep 30, 2011 Live on Rs 32 a day: Aruna Roy to Montek: "60 million tonnes of grain are piling in FCI godowns implying that the government itself is hoarding grain to increase food prices.", "Even as we write to you, over the next twenty four hours, close to 3,000 Indian children will die of malnutrition related illness.""
Sep 29, 2011 India Today Group's campaign against corruption: Bangalorean secures passport without bribing officials: "It thus becomes one of the most common corruption practices in the country in the name of police verification."
Sep 29, 2011 Vachati mass rape: All accused 'guilty': "215 government officials have been found guilty of atrocities in the 1992 Vachati mass rape case. The verdict comes two decades after an entire village of Harur, at Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, was tortured by policemen and forest officials."
Sep 29, 2011 Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar to be prosecuted: "A suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, whose house was confiscated and turned into a primary school, will be prosecuted for having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income"
Sep 29, 2011 A nation of flashers: "“Public servants,” justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya remarked, “are actually servants of the public.” It is a timely reminder. The roving cars with their flashing lights are against all this country was meant to be — a democratic republic where public servants, such as MLAs, MPs and bureaucrats, are meant to serve, not rule us as the British once did.", "the Delhi Police started a crackdown on the illegal use of emergency lights. Nearly 300 government officials — including paramilitary officers, the daughter of an MP, a roadways official, a sales tax official — were prosecuted for unauthorised use. Instead of backing the unprecedented crackdown, a group of 100 MPs, across parties, requested the chairman of the committee that governs their privileges to allow them emergency lights (and toll-free passage on national highways). The reasoning? Without red lights, their cars were being prosecuted for traffic offences. The use of emergency lights by is governed by The Motor Vehicles Act, which allows specific officials to use red and blue light. Some lights can revolve, others must be stationary. The rules are comical, befitting a banana republic."
Sep 29, 2011 1992 Vachati mass rape case: 215 forest personnel held guilty, nine for rape: "tribals accused forest and police personnel of raping and torturing them during the Veerappan operation by the forest and police personnel in June 1992. The tribals said they were picked up under the guise of questioning during the operation to nab Veerappan and some of the women were raped and the men tortured for information about the dreaded sandalwood bandit's whereabouts."
Sep 29, 2011 215 held guilty in TN mass rape case: "Brutal assault and rape on tribals took place in Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district on June 20, 1992. * Accused belonged to police, forest and revenue departments. * 18 tribal women were raped and over 100 assaulted. * Apart from rape, assault, the other charges were of atrocities against tribals * Of 215 sentenced, 125 belong to forest department, 84 are policemen and five are revenue officials."
Sep 27, 2011 Bribe: MCD engineer jailed for four years: "An MCD engineer, caught accepting Rs 20,000 as bribe from a contractor, has been sentenced to a four-year jail term with the court ruing India's dubious prominence among corrupt nations. "Unfortunately, India ranks prominently high in the list of countries plagued by corruption."
Sep 27, 2011 JPC summons Finance Secretary to explain why 2G note was not submitted to it: "a “breach of privilege” if the note was withheld deliberately by the Finance Ministry when it was asked by the JPC to submit to it all documents related to the 2G spectrum allocation."
Sep 26, 2011 The price of honesty, truck driver beaten to death: "A truck driver was today (September 26) killed allegedly by Road Transport Office (RTO) staffers after he refused to pay bribe during a vehicle checking drive in Naubatpur locality in Sayyadraza area here"
Sep 26, 2011 CBI to probe Maran over illegal phone lines: "Nearly four years after getting complaints, the CBI will start a formal probe into allegations that over 300 telephone lines were allotted to the residence of Dayanidhi Maran in Chennai and illegally linked with a television channel owned by his brother. These 323 residential lines were in the name of BSNL General Manager connecting the Boat House residence of Maran with office of Sun TV through a dedicated underground cable during the tenure of Maran as Telecom Minister"
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for refusing to give bribe in UP: "truck was not overloaded, but demanded Rs 1,000." His father was willing to pay only Rs 500 after which the RTO constables and one Shiv Kumar of the weighing centre beat him brutally, causing his death", "and the police fired in the air and lathicharged to control the situation,"
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for not paying bribe
Sep 24, 2011 'Controversial' DGCA man at work: "Five months after the senior DGCA officer was suspended, RS Passi has been reinstated with additional responsibilities. TIMES NOW has accessed documents which show Joint DG, DGCA AK Sharan assigned crucial duties to Passi. RS Passi was suspended in April following TIMES NOW expose on fake pilot scam. Passi had misused his position as Director Air Safety, DGCA to help his 'ineligible' daughter get a CPL."
Sep 23, 2011 IAC begins anti-bribe drive at govt offices
Sep 23, 2011 Chhattisgarh engineer owns assets over Rs.60 mn: "raided the residence of the Public Works Department (PWD) engineer Vijay Kumar Bhatpahri. He is the chief engineer of PWD's Raipur circle. "He has assets of at least Rs.60 million disproportionate to his known sources of income."
Sep 23, 2011 CBI raids ex-Chairman of Dental Council: "A case has been filed by the CBI on Anil Kohli over disproportionate assets."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: SC surprised TRAI found no loss in spectrum allocation: "Telecom regulator TRAI's report purportedly assessing zero loss in 2G spectrum allocation during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja on Wednesday came under sharp criticism of the Supreme Court which questioned the functioning of the autonomous body."
Sep 20, 2011 Officials at intel agency filmed women colleagues in toilet: "The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), the country’s premier technical intelligence agency set up after the Kargil intrusion, is already under the scanner of the Supreme Court for a slew of alleged irregularities. The latest is a shocking case of officials using secret service funds to illegally film their women colleagues in the toilet."
Sep 19, 2011 HC rejects anticipatory bail plea of KPSC ex-chairman: "The High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail petition of H N Krishna, former chairman of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC), in connection with irregularities in the selection of candidates for the Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) in 1998, 1999 and 2004."
Sep 16, 2011 Shehla's letter alleges misuse of MP state funds: "Massod named state's top brass"
Sep 15, 2011 Many graft cases would have come out if I had suo motu power: Hegde: "The former Supreme Court judge, who retired as Karnataka Lokayukta last month after being in office for five years, said he was frustrated at times because of lack of such powers as well the government's poor response, vis-a-vis sanction to prosecute tainted officers."
Sep 15, 2011 CWG scam: CBI registers new case, raids on: "CBI has accused DDA officials, Contractors B.E.Billimoria Company Ltd. and retired Chief Engineer of DDA V.K.Panchal in the case."
Sep 15, 2011 Delhi Babus to face salary cut on failure to deliver service on time: "Babus in the national capital will no longer be able to delay services to citizens as a long-pending legislation seeking greater accountability in the public services delivery will come into force from Thursday."
Sep 15, 2011 Road claims fake, will fix responsibility: HC: "At the end of the day, these bodies are answerable to the hassled, miserable and pitied commuters who pay hefty sums as road tax in the anticipation and hope that roads do not stalk them but bestow pain-free travel. The callous authorities cannot dodge the responsibility by indulging in the blame game, when the commuter silently suffers,”"
Sep 15, 2011 MP forest officer sacked for clearing mining projects: "AK Rana was clearing mining projects in dense forests in Central India, in violation of environment rules."
Sep 14, 2011 CBI decodes scam, nails ex-MCI chief Ketan Desai: "After Desai's arrest, CNN-IBN conducted a series of investigations that exposed how Desai ran the Medical Council of India like a cartel, extorting money from private colleges to grant them permission."
Sep 13, 2011 Anna Hazare supporters visiting government offices with flowers: "IAC Dhanbad unit members are making rounds of various departments - commercial tax including Joint commissioner and deputy commissioner of sales tax, district Transport office, offices of assistant registrar, BDO and CO (circle officer) almost every day. "
Sep 11, 2011 ‘Property amassed from corruption for schools’: "Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the property amassed by way of corrupt practices would be confiscated and used to build schools in Bihar."
Sep 11, 2011 'Corrupt people are cannibals of society': "With petrol prices having risen sharply then, dozens of official vehicles were caught ferrying family members of running personal errands."
Sep 9, 2011 School opens in tainted Bihar officer's house: "Bihar government has converted suspended IAS officer SS Verma's house into a school."
Sep 9, 2011 MCI Secretary's appointment under clout: "Confidential CBI papers allege corruption and criminal conspiracy against MCI's new secretary."
Sep 9, 2011 Bollywood WikiLeaks: Bribery needed for shooting in India: "the numerous clearances (and bribes) needed for shooting a scene in India makes even Indian producers reluctant to shoot in the country. Many of the key outdoor scenes in Bollywood movies are shot overseas, in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S."
Sep 9, 2011 Bihar: Once corrupt babu's bungalow, now a school: "History was made on Thursday in Bihar when a school began functioning in the confiscated palatial building of tainted Indian Administrative Services officer Shiv Shankar Verma."
Sep 9, 2011 Technology – India’s quiet anti-corruption crusader: "Technology, not protest marches, might be the biggest eradicator of corruption in India where under-the-table bribes thrive in the world of face-to-face transactions. Many facets of India’s government still operate in Dickensian offices where floor-to-ceiling stacks of paper files can provide good cover and easy excuses for “delays” that only a sweetener of a few hundred rupees can cut through."
Sep 9, 2011 CBI registers case against bank manager for loan fraud: "The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a bank manager for allegedly colluding with another in advancing loans to 60 persons against norms."
Sep 8, 2011 Tainted Bihar IAS officer's house now a school: "During the raid on Verma's house the Vigilance sleuths also seized a 9 kg gold bar with Swiss hallmark, 800 guineas, Rs 16.50 lakh in cash, $1600, jewellery valued at over Rs 81 lakh, investments in share market amounting to Rs 20 lakh and papers pertaining to investments in immovable properties at four places"
Sep 8, 2011 Illegal mining: CBI to probe officials' involvement: "After arresting ex-Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy, the CBI will now probe the role of government officials in the illegal mining by the former in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district bordering Karnataka."
Sep 8, 2011 Are I-T raids leading to corruption?: "The latest case of corruption to hit the taxman is that of Chennai based Everonn, wherein the CBI arrested a tax official for accepting bribe from a company official to reduce the concealed income detected during a raid on the company. So is it time for revenue authorities to make official announcements post corporate raids to promote greater transparency?"
Sep 8, 2011 BBC: 'Corrupt' Indian official's house turned into school: "The house of a senior Indian civil servant on trial for corruption has been turned into a school for slum children."
Sep 5, 2011 IAC volunteers to take anti-graft campaign to local govt offices
Sep 5, 2011 Janardhana Reddy sent to jail; Rs 3cr cash, 30 kg gold seized: "Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and managing director of Obulapuram Mining Company Srinivasa Reddy have been sent to jail. The court forwarded the two to 14-day judicial custody.", "Several IAS, IFS officers also will be questioned in connection with illegal mining at Obulapuram and some of them are expected to be arrested today."
Sep 4, 2011 Fraud to bribes: CAG quietly buries report on corruption and rot within
Sep 4, 2011 'कमेटी आ गई, भागो'....: "पुलिस को हर महीने पाँच सौ से हज़ार रूपए देता हूँ.और इतने ही करीब नगर निगम वाले ले जाते हैं. "
Sep 4, 2011 Guidelines to check corruption in bureaucracy soon: "Government is likely to issue a set of guidelines soon to check corruption in bureaucracy which will include reducing the time taken to penalise delinquent officials."
Sep 3, 2011 Follow The Money: "Just not PC Things haven’t changed much in the last 60 years in some government offices, like the one here in Calcutta"
Sep 3, 2011 Team Anna to take up fight against bad roads: "There are 1 lakh stickers saying, 'Corruption Prohibited, Brashtachar Nishedh'. Our volunteers will go with the declaration and put up these stickers in government offices.""
Sep 3, 2011 Wall Street Journal: India Says No to $80 Toilet Paper : "A year ago, no one in India could have imagined that cabinet ministers, powerful politicians, senior officials and CEOs would be in jail now, awaiting trial for corruption."
Sep 2, 2011 LS speaker secy raided, sacked: "After booking Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's secretary AP Pathak for allegedly owning assets disproportionate to his income, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted searches at his residence and seven of his properties located in seven cities including Delhi and Gurgaon."
Sep 2, 2011 CBI searches premises of Meira Kumar's secretary: "The CBI today searched the premises of A P Pathak, Secretary to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case"
Aug 31, 2011 JPSC scam accused surrenders before court
Aug 28, 2011 Fight graft, but spare donkeys, activists write to Anna: ""Several TV channels have telecast visuals of supporters of the India Against Corruption campaign using donkeys to symbolise corrupt officials during their rallies," said Sharma. "The donkeys had placards around their necks, their faces had been blackened and they were being punched, slapped and beaten, to symbolise the anti-corruption crusader putting corruption down.""
Aug 26, 2011 In Anna backyard, in Lokpal season, a fearful babu swallows his bribe: "In Anna Hazare’s backyard, official energy is currently focused on one anti-corruption struggle: how to get Rs 2,000 out of a revenue official, who allegedly swallowed the money when caught red-handed accepting bribe"
Aug 25, 2011 Sohrab case: 'Narendra Modi's babus, cops tried to help accused minister'
Aug 24, 2011 “पहले चोरी और फिर सीना ज़ोरी”
Aug 24, 2011 Govt mulling sacking corrupt officers at trial stage: "As Government and Team Anna slug it out over the Lokpal issue, a move is afoot for sacking public servants chargesheeted for corruption once the trial begins."
Aug 23, 2011 'AIIMS wants Rs10k bribe for heart surgery’: "the operation has been rescheduled twice and three bottles of blood arranged by his family and submitted to the hospital in August last year for the surgery, is no longer usable."
Aug 23, 2011 Now, babus to corner posh CWG flats
Aug 23, 2011 CBI awaits nod to act against 279 over graft: "At a time when the country is witnessing an outcry against corruption, 279 CBI applications seeking sanction to prosecute senior government officials in corruption cases are pending with different Central and state government departments, in some cases for years."
Aug 21, 2011 Bihar govt to turn corrupt babu's house into school: "With the Patna high court upholding a May order to confiscate the multi-storied building of suspended IAS officer Shiv Shankar Verma, decks seem to have been cleared for this purpose."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ fights corruption in the Ghaziabad post office: "Bhupinder Mehta is fighting corruption in the Ghaziabad post office. Four lakh rupees of his are stuck in red tape."
Aug 21, 2011 Suspension orders, charge sheets not personal info: CIC: "Suspension orders and charge sheets issued to government officials should be disclosed under the RTI as these are not personal information, the Central Information Commission has held."
Aug 20, 2011 Forest department 'loses' a damning report: "In a not-so-smart attempt to shield a conservator of forests, who is facing charges of allowing the plundering of forest wealth, the state government has claimed it has ''lost'' a Lokayukta report which indicted and recommended action against him."
Aug 20, 2011 Corrupt babus certify Hazare is four-year-old
Aug 20, 2011 Are Indian Corporates doing enough to combat corruption?: "The corrupt high-handedness of India's insular bureaucracy can be traced directly to the symbiotic relationship between the politician and the civil servant in looting the exchequer, selling patronage and extorting money from the public. If the politician had a transparent source of funding, and only if he is thus liberated from dependence on the civil servant for procurement of vital funding through corruption, he can discharge his duty of making the administrative system work as it is supposed to."
Aug 19, 2011 Top Andhra bureaucrat named in Emaar deal irregularities: "The CBI has named a senior IAS officer along with Directors of Emaar Properties and unknown public servants as accused in connection with irregularities in the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC)-Emaar land deal"
Aug 13, 2011 MCI Secy, former IHBAS chief under CBI scanner: "Dr Sangeeta Sharma, present Secretary of the Medical Council of India (MCI), is one of the officials under the scanner while the CBI has sought sanction to move against Dr Meena Gupta, former IHBAS Director and present Head of Department of Neurology at G B Pant Hospital. A senior accounts official is also being probed."
Aug 12, 2011 Hasan Gets Bail as ED Fails to Link His Money to Crime: "the Bombay High Court today granted bail to Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, saying the anti-money laundering agency had failed to show that wealth allegedly amassed by him was proceeds of crime."
Aug 11, 2011 CBI chargesheets Shahi and two IAS officers: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed chargesheet against ex-health minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi, suspended IAS officer Pradeep Kumar and 11 other accused in Rs 130 crore medicine scam."
Aug 10, 2011 Adarsh scam: CAG report indicts ex-chief ministers: "A latest report on the Adarsh scam indicts Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh for flouting norms"
Aug 9, 2011 Adarsh scam, a case of fence eating crop: CAG: "Terming the Adarsh Housing Society scam a classic example of fence eating the crops, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Tuesday said rules were flouted to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and military authorities."
Aug 9, 2011 Karnataka Lokayukta raids six sub-registrar offices: "Karnataka’s new Lokayukta (ombudsman) Justice Shivaraj V. Patil ordered raids at six sub-registrar offices in Bangalore Rural and Doddaballapur districts and unaccounted cash running into thousands of rupees was seized from officials, brokers and agents."
Aug 9, 2011 Former Health Secretary surrenders: "Former Health Secretary and suspended IAS Dr Pradeep Kumar was on Monday sent to jail after he surrendered before the CBI court in connection with Rs 130 crore drug scam."
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Oct 20, 2011 CBI quizzes AMU V-C over financial irregularities: "the V-C made the AMU pay his income tax and also violated the varsity's rules by transferring Rs 8 crore of Provident Fund money from State Bank of India to Shreyas Gramin Bank. AMU funds were also allegedly misused for interior decoration of his residence."
Oct 16, 2011 Civil Services: A tool of occupation?: "Particularly in nation like India and states like Kashmir where corruption is rampant, these things work much better."
Oct 16, 2011 पाकुड़ के पूर्व डीएसई जेल भेजे गये: "पद का दुरुपयोग कर 17 शिक्षकों को सेवानिवृति के बाद भी सेवा में दिखाकर पिछली तिथि से अवैध रूप से सेलेक्शन ग्रेड एवं प्रोन्नति आदि देकर सरकारी कोष से अवैध रूप से सरकारी राशि की निकासी एवं गबन करने का आरोप है।"
Oct 14, 2011 Palike mum on auction of felled trees: "The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike seems to be in the dark over the revenue it generated from auctioning of trees felled for “development projects.”"
Oct 14, 2011 Tamil Nadu Public Service members raided: "members received Rs. 30-40 lakhs for key postings"
Oct 12, 2011 Corruption: We need a whistleblower act for babus to say NO: "“Today we are facing a testing time in the history of our nation. There has been erosion of people’s faith in the government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy, including the police force, has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of civil servants is being questioned.”"
Oct 11, 2011 Slain officer demanded bribe from oil mafia: CBI: "Additional District Collector Yashwant Sonawane who was burnt to death on eve of Republic Day this year, by suspected oil mafia goons, had allegedly, ''demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from his attackers,''"
Oct 11, 2011 Government's credibility at its 'lowest': CAG Vinod Rai: ""The governance is at its lowest ebb. The morale of the civil servant is low. The credibility of the government is at its lowest. It's a strong statement but it is harsh reality. And hence because of all this the decision making has become a causalty," said Rai who has given audit reports coming down heavily on Union government departments.", ""Today, we are facing a testing time in the history of our Nation. The quality of governance is below par and subject to severe criticism. There has been an erosion of people's faith in government. Their confidence in public institutions has declined. National trust in bureaucracy including the Police force has collapsed. The integrity and professionalism of the civil servants are being questioned,""
Oct 11, 2011 IAS officer suspended for corruption, 1st time in India: "Radhakrishnan grossly violated rules” in over 300 cases as chairperson of the Board of Revenue in which he gave consent to private people and even industries to illegally purchase tribal persons’ lands."
Oct 9, 2011 Babus and the 2G scam fallout: "it is not difficult to understand the import of these few lines in the note since it is the non-auction of the ‘start-up spectrum’ that the CAG has estimated could have cost the exchequer more than Rs 1,75,000 crores. And any guesses who the then FM was? Well, if you still can’t understand the lingo of the bureaucrats, let me tell you: he is the present Home Minister."
Oct 9, 2011 71 CWG-related works under CVC scanner for alleged graft: "The 71 cases exclude 26 cases worth Rs 3,316.58 crore being probed by the CVC. Of the 26 projects, six were done by Public Works Department, five by OC, four by MCD, three each by NDMC and CPWD, two each by DDA, India Tourism Development Corporation and one by RITES."
Oct 8, 2011 Case against Puducherry education minister for exam fraud: "The district crime branch filed a criminal case against Kalyanasundaram, exam hall supervisor P Adavan and office assistant M Rajini Kanth, who allegedly helped the minister to carry out the impersonation plan. A school dropout, Kalyanasundaram is a first-time legislator in Puducherry and became education minister and holds the IT and transport portfolios as well."
Oct 8, 2011 It's criminal neglect: CSR Director on encephalitis: "The Centre for Social Research Director says the disease could have been prevented had there been a political will."
Oct 8, 2011 Lady IAS officer quizzed by CBI, house raided: "The central agency has found alleged irregularities in certain leases given to OMC between 2005 and 2009, when Srilakshmi was the Secretary of Andhra Pradesh Industries Department."
Oct 7, 2011 Arvind Speech at Jantar Mantar_Protest against Govt. Lokpal Bill
Oct 7, 2011 Former KPSC chairman Krishna arrested: "Former Karnataka Information Commissioner H N Krishna was today arrested in connection with charges of irregularities and malpractice in the selection of gazetted probationers during his tenure as Chairman of the state Public Service Commission during 1998-2004.", "A CID inquiry had found alleged discrimination, fabrication of documents, fraud and criminal intimidation among others in various stages of selection process of gazetted probationers (Group A and B posts) during 1998, 1999 and 2004."
Oct 7, 2011 Loan scam: Top brass chargesheeted: "CBI has filed charge sheets in four cases registered by it last year against senior officials of a public sector bank and a private company for allegedly receiving kickbacks in sanctioning of loans."
Oct 7, 2011 Close encounters of an I.A.S. officer : "This is story about the definition of corruption which each individual must come up with"
Oct 6, 2011 ‘PDS kerosene scam’ rocks Assembly: "“Eight lakh quintals of wheat is coming every month to Punjab under PDS but is not going to the poor. It is being cornered by flour mills in connivance with government officials. We demand a CBI inquiry into the whole PDS scam,”", "The Indian Express, in a three-part investigative series carried out in August 2009, had revealed how PDS kerosene in Punjab was not reaching the poor but and being diverted by the oil mafia."
Oct 5, 2011 Reuters: UPDATE 1-India police file charges in bribes-for-loans case
Oct 5, 2011 Delhi: Ex-LIC CEO Ramchandran Nair booked for loan scam: "The CBI has filed chargesheets against former CEO and director of LIC housing corporation, Ramchandran Nair, LIC's secretary (investment) Naresh Kumar Chopra as well as several officials of public sector banks and private firms in one of the biggest scams to have hit the public sector in recent times."
Oct 5, 2011 Bribes-for-loans case:CBI files charge sheet against senior bank officials: "Chargesheets have been filed against former LIC Housing finance CEO Ramchandra Nair, the then General Manager of Bank of India R N Tayal, the then Deputy General Manager of Punjab National Bank Venkoba Gujjal and Rajesh Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director of private financial services firm Money Matters.", "According to the charge sheets, Nair took a bribe of Rs 16 lakh, Tayal of Rs 45 lakh and Gujjal of Rs 25 lakh."
Oct 4, 2011 Rot starts at top: Indicted IIT chiefs go scot-free: "Poor quality of engineers is not the only problem afflicting the IITs. The rot has set in from the top. At least two of its directors - Damodar Acharya of IIT-Kharagpur and A K Bhowmick of IIT-Patna - are still in office, despite the Central Bureau of Investigation's indictment in the past."
Oct 2, 2011 Gandhi family loyalist joins PMO
Oct 1, 2011 ‘There was only one old woman left in the village. The others were all hiding in the hills’: "Nineteen years ago, a large team of Tamil Nadu Police and officers from the forest and revenue departments swooped down on the village nestled in the foothills of the Sitheri hills in Harur taluk, Dharmapuri district, in an apparent search for smuggled sandalwood. Over the next two days, government officers raped and humiliated 18 tribal women, beat up dozens of other unarmed villagers, tore down homes and polluted drinking water sources with diesel and the carcasses of village goats they butchered for dinner."
Sep 30, 2011 Lokayukta raids net five officers: "The officers whose residences were raided are S M Ramakrishna, Additional Chief Engineer, BWSSB, Bangalore, T Sriram, Executive Engineer, BWSSB, Bangalore, Ramalingaiah, Assistant Executive Engineer, PWD, Bangalore, Laxman Shivappa Goundi, Shirastedar, Food and Civil Supplies Department, Tahsildar office, Bagalkot and S Ramakrishnappa, Assistant Executive Engineer, Minor Irrigation sub division, Shimoga."
Sep 30, 2011 'To get project nod, green ministry babus hide facts': "ministry transferred two Indian Forest Service (IoFS) officials CD Singh and AK Rana for restoring to alleged violation of norms for clearing projects."
Sep 30, 2011 Live on Rs 32 a day: Aruna Roy to Montek: "60 million tonnes of grain are piling in FCI godowns implying that the government itself is hoarding grain to increase food prices.", "Even as we write to you, over the next twenty four hours, close to 3,000 Indian children will die of malnutrition related illness.""
Sep 29, 2011 India Today Group's campaign against corruption: Bangalorean secures passport without bribing officials: "It thus becomes one of the most common corruption practices in the country in the name of police verification."
Sep 29, 2011 Vachati mass rape: All accused 'guilty': "215 government officials have been found guilty of atrocities in the 1992 Vachati mass rape case. The verdict comes two decades after an entire village of Harur, at Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, was tortured by policemen and forest officials."
Sep 29, 2011 Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar to be prosecuted: "A suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, whose house was confiscated and turned into a primary school, will be prosecuted for having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income"
Sep 29, 2011 A nation of flashers: "“Public servants,” justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya remarked, “are actually servants of the public.” It is a timely reminder. The roving cars with their flashing lights are against all this country was meant to be — a democratic republic where public servants, such as MLAs, MPs and bureaucrats, are meant to serve, not rule us as the British once did.", "the Delhi Police started a crackdown on the illegal use of emergency lights. Nearly 300 government officials — including paramilitary officers, the daughter of an MP, a roadways official, a sales tax official — were prosecuted for unauthorised use. Instead of backing the unprecedented crackdown, a group of 100 MPs, across parties, requested the chairman of the committee that governs their privileges to allow them emergency lights (and toll-free passage on national highways). The reasoning? Without red lights, their cars were being prosecuted for traffic offences. The use of emergency lights by is governed by The Motor Vehicles Act, which allows specific officials to use red and blue light. Some lights can revolve, others must be stationary. The rules are comical, befitting a banana republic."
Sep 29, 2011 1992 Vachati mass rape case: 215 forest personnel held guilty, nine for rape: "tribals accused forest and police personnel of raping and torturing them during the Veerappan operation by the forest and police personnel in June 1992. The tribals said they were picked up under the guise of questioning during the operation to nab Veerappan and some of the women were raped and the men tortured for information about the dreaded sandalwood bandit's whereabouts."
Sep 29, 2011 215 held guilty in TN mass rape case: "Brutal assault and rape on tribals took place in Vachathi village in Dharmapuri district on June 20, 1992. * Accused belonged to police, forest and revenue departments. * 18 tribal women were raped and over 100 assaulted. * Apart from rape, assault, the other charges were of atrocities against tribals * Of 215 sentenced, 125 belong to forest department, 84 are policemen and five are revenue officials."
Sep 27, 2011 Bribe: MCD engineer jailed for four years: "An MCD engineer, caught accepting Rs 20,000 as bribe from a contractor, has been sentenced to a four-year jail term with the court ruing India's dubious prominence among corrupt nations. "Unfortunately, India ranks prominently high in the list of countries plagued by corruption."
Sep 27, 2011 JPC summons Finance Secretary to explain why 2G note was not submitted to it: "a “breach of privilege” if the note was withheld deliberately by the Finance Ministry when it was asked by the JPC to submit to it all documents related to the 2G spectrum allocation."
Sep 26, 2011 The price of honesty, truck driver beaten to death: "A truck driver was today (September 26) killed allegedly by Road Transport Office (RTO) staffers after he refused to pay bribe during a vehicle checking drive in Naubatpur locality in Sayyadraza area here"
Sep 26, 2011 CBI to probe Maran over illegal phone lines: "Nearly four years after getting complaints, the CBI will start a formal probe into allegations that over 300 telephone lines were allotted to the residence of Dayanidhi Maran in Chennai and illegally linked with a television channel owned by his brother. These 323 residential lines were in the name of BSNL General Manager connecting the Boat House residence of Maran with office of Sun TV through a dedicated underground cable during the tenure of Maran as Telecom Minister"
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for refusing to give bribe in UP: "truck was not overloaded, but demanded Rs 1,000." His father was willing to pay only Rs 500 after which the RTO constables and one Shiv Kumar of the weighing centre beat him brutally, causing his death", "and the police fired in the air and lathicharged to control the situation,"
Sep 26, 2011 Truck driver beaten to death for not paying bribe
Sep 24, 2011 'Controversial' DGCA man at work: "Five months after the senior DGCA officer was suspended, RS Passi has been reinstated with additional responsibilities. TIMES NOW has accessed documents which show Joint DG, DGCA AK Sharan assigned crucial duties to Passi. RS Passi was suspended in April following TIMES NOW expose on fake pilot scam. Passi had misused his position as Director Air Safety, DGCA to help his 'ineligible' daughter get a CPL."
Sep 23, 2011 IAC begins anti-bribe drive at govt offices
Sep 23, 2011 Chhattisgarh engineer owns assets over Rs.60 mn: "raided the residence of the Public Works Department (PWD) engineer Vijay Kumar Bhatpahri. He is the chief engineer of PWD's Raipur circle. "He has assets of at least Rs.60 million disproportionate to his known sources of income."
Sep 23, 2011 CBI raids ex-Chairman of Dental Council: "A case has been filed by the CBI on Anil Kohli over disproportionate assets."
Sep 21, 2011 2G: SC surprised TRAI found no loss in spectrum allocation: "Telecom regulator TRAI's report purportedly assessing zero loss in 2G spectrum allocation during the tenure of former telecom minister A Raja on Wednesday came under sharp criticism of the Supreme Court which questioned the functioning of the autonomous body."
Sep 20, 2011 Officials at intel agency filmed women colleagues in toilet: "The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), the country’s premier technical intelligence agency set up after the Kargil intrusion, is already under the scanner of the Supreme Court for a slew of alleged irregularities. The latest is a shocking case of officials using secret service funds to illegally film their women colleagues in the toilet."
Sep 19, 2011 HC rejects anticipatory bail plea of KPSC ex-chairman: "The High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail petition of H N Krishna, former chairman of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC), in connection with irregularities in the selection of candidates for the Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) in 1998, 1999 and 2004."
Sep 16, 2011 Shehla's letter alleges misuse of MP state funds: "Massod named state's top brass"
Sep 15, 2011 Many graft cases would have come out if I had suo motu power: Hegde: "The former Supreme Court judge, who retired as Karnataka Lokayukta last month after being in office for five years, said he was frustrated at times because of lack of such powers as well the government's poor response, vis-a-vis sanction to prosecute tainted officers."
Sep 15, 2011 CWG scam: CBI registers new case, raids on: "CBI has accused DDA officials, Contractors B.E.Billimoria Company Ltd. and retired Chief Engineer of DDA V.K.Panchal in the case."
Sep 15, 2011 Delhi Babus to face salary cut on failure to deliver service on time: "Babus in the national capital will no longer be able to delay services to citizens as a long-pending legislation seeking greater accountability in the public services delivery will come into force from Thursday."
Sep 15, 2011 Road claims fake, will fix responsibility: HC: "At the end of the day, these bodies are answerable to the hassled, miserable and pitied commuters who pay hefty sums as road tax in the anticipation and hope that roads do not stalk them but bestow pain-free travel. The callous authorities cannot dodge the responsibility by indulging in the blame game, when the commuter silently suffers,”"
Sep 15, 2011 MP forest officer sacked for clearing mining projects: "AK Rana was clearing mining projects in dense forests in Central India, in violation of environment rules."
Sep 14, 2011 CBI decodes scam, nails ex-MCI chief Ketan Desai: "After Desai's arrest, CNN-IBN conducted a series of investigations that exposed how Desai ran the Medical Council of India like a cartel, extorting money from private colleges to grant them permission."
Sep 13, 2011 Anna Hazare supporters visiting government offices with flowers: "IAC Dhanbad unit members are making rounds of various departments - commercial tax including Joint commissioner and deputy commissioner of sales tax, district Transport office, offices of assistant registrar, BDO and CO (circle officer) almost every day. "
Sep 11, 2011 ‘Property amassed from corruption for schools’: "Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the property amassed by way of corrupt practices would be confiscated and used to build schools in Bihar."
Sep 11, 2011 'Corrupt people are cannibals of society': "With petrol prices having risen sharply then, dozens of official vehicles were caught ferrying family members of running personal errands."
Sep 9, 2011 School opens in tainted Bihar officer's house: "Bihar government has converted suspended IAS officer SS Verma's house into a school."
Sep 9, 2011 MCI Secretary's appointment under clout: "Confidential CBI papers allege corruption and criminal conspiracy against MCI's new secretary."
Sep 9, 2011 Bollywood WikiLeaks: Bribery needed for shooting in India: "the numerous clearances (and bribes) needed for shooting a scene in India makes even Indian producers reluctant to shoot in the country. Many of the key outdoor scenes in Bollywood movies are shot overseas, in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S."
Sep 9, 2011 Bihar: Once corrupt babu's bungalow, now a school: "History was made on Thursday in Bihar when a school began functioning in the confiscated palatial building of tainted Indian Administrative Services officer Shiv Shankar Verma."
Sep 9, 2011 Technology – India’s quiet anti-corruption crusader: "Technology, not protest marches, might be the biggest eradicator of corruption in India where under-the-table bribes thrive in the world of face-to-face transactions. Many facets of India’s government still operate in Dickensian offices where floor-to-ceiling stacks of paper files can provide good cover and easy excuses for “delays” that only a sweetener of a few hundred rupees can cut through."
Sep 9, 2011 CBI registers case against bank manager for loan fraud: "The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a bank manager for allegedly colluding with another in advancing loans to 60 persons against norms."
Sep 8, 2011 Tainted Bihar IAS officer's house now a school: "During the raid on Verma's house the Vigilance sleuths also seized a 9 kg gold bar with Swiss hallmark, 800 guineas, Rs 16.50 lakh in cash, $1600, jewellery valued at over Rs 81 lakh, investments in share market amounting to Rs 20 lakh and papers pertaining to investments in immovable properties at four places"
Sep 8, 2011 Illegal mining: CBI to probe officials' involvement: "After arresting ex-Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy, the CBI will now probe the role of government officials in the illegal mining by the former in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district bordering Karnataka."
Sep 8, 2011 Are I-T raids leading to corruption?: "The latest case of corruption to hit the taxman is that of Chennai based Everonn, wherein the CBI arrested a tax official for accepting bribe from a company official to reduce the concealed income detected during a raid on the company. So is it time for revenue authorities to make official announcements post corporate raids to promote greater transparency?"
Sep 8, 2011 BBC: 'Corrupt' Indian official's house turned into school: "The house of a senior Indian civil servant on trial for corruption has been turned into a school for slum children."
Sep 5, 2011 IAC volunteers to take anti-graft campaign to local govt offices
Sep 5, 2011 Janardhana Reddy sent to jail; Rs 3cr cash, 30 kg gold seized: "Former Karnataka minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy and managing director of Obulapuram Mining Company Srinivasa Reddy have been sent to jail. The court forwarded the two to 14-day judicial custody.", "Several IAS, IFS officers also will be questioned in connection with illegal mining at Obulapuram and some of them are expected to be arrested today."
Sep 4, 2011 Fraud to bribes: CAG quietly buries report on corruption and rot within
Sep 4, 2011 'कमेटी आ गई, भागो'....: "पुलिस को हर महीने पाँच सौ से हज़ार रूपए देता हूँ.और इतने ही करीब नगर निगम वाले ले जाते हैं. "
Sep 4, 2011 Guidelines to check corruption in bureaucracy soon: "Government is likely to issue a set of guidelines soon to check corruption in bureaucracy which will include reducing the time taken to penalise delinquent officials."
Sep 3, 2011 Follow The Money: "Just not PC Things haven’t changed much in the last 60 years in some government offices, like the one here in Calcutta"
Sep 3, 2011 Team Anna to take up fight against bad roads: "There are 1 lakh stickers saying, 'Corruption Prohibited, Brashtachar Nishedh'. Our volunteers will go with the declaration and put up these stickers in government offices.""
Sep 3, 2011 Wall Street Journal: India Says No to $80 Toilet Paper : "A year ago, no one in India could have imagined that cabinet ministers, powerful politicians, senior officials and CEOs would be in jail now, awaiting trial for corruption."
Sep 2, 2011 LS speaker secy raided, sacked: "After booking Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar's secretary AP Pathak for allegedly owning assets disproportionate to his income, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted searches at his residence and seven of his properties located in seven cities including Delhi and Gurgaon."
Sep 2, 2011 CBI searches premises of Meira Kumar's secretary: "The CBI today searched the premises of A P Pathak, Secretary to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, in connection with an alleged disproportionate assets case"
Aug 31, 2011 JPSC scam accused surrenders before court
Aug 28, 2011 Fight graft, but spare donkeys, activists write to Anna: ""Several TV channels have telecast visuals of supporters of the India Against Corruption campaign using donkeys to symbolise corrupt officials during their rallies," said Sharma. "The donkeys had placards around their necks, their faces had been blackened and they were being punched, slapped and beaten, to symbolise the anti-corruption crusader putting corruption down.""
Aug 26, 2011 In Anna backyard, in Lokpal season, a fearful babu swallows his bribe: "In Anna Hazare’s backyard, official energy is currently focused on one anti-corruption struggle: how to get Rs 2,000 out of a revenue official, who allegedly swallowed the money when caught red-handed accepting bribe"
Aug 25, 2011 Sohrab case: 'Narendra Modi's babus, cops tried to help accused minister'
Aug 24, 2011 “पहले चोरी और फिर सीना ज़ोरी”
Aug 24, 2011 Govt mulling sacking corrupt officers at trial stage: "As Government and Team Anna slug it out over the Lokpal issue, a move is afoot for sacking public servants chargesheeted for corruption once the trial begins."
Aug 23, 2011 'AIIMS wants Rs10k bribe for heart surgery’: "the operation has been rescheduled twice and three bottles of blood arranged by his family and submitted to the hospital in August last year for the surgery, is no longer usable."
Aug 23, 2011 Now, babus to corner posh CWG flats
Aug 23, 2011 CBI awaits nod to act against 279 over graft: "At a time when the country is witnessing an outcry against corruption, 279 CBI applications seeking sanction to prosecute senior government officials in corruption cases are pending with different Central and state government departments, in some cases for years."
Aug 21, 2011 Bihar govt to turn corrupt babu's house into school: "With the Patna high court upholding a May order to confiscate the multi-storied building of suspended IAS officer Shiv Shankar Verma, decks seem to have been cleared for this purpose."
Aug 21, 2011 CJ fights corruption in the Ghaziabad post office: "Bhupinder Mehta is fighting corruption in the Ghaziabad post office. Four lakh rupees of his are stuck in red tape."
Aug 21, 2011 Suspension orders, charge sheets not personal info: CIC: "Suspension orders and charge sheets issued to government officials should be disclosed under the RTI as these are not personal information, the Central Information Commission has held."
Aug 20, 2011 Forest department 'loses' a damning report: "In a not-so-smart attempt to shield a conservator of forests, who is facing charges of allowing the plundering of forest wealth, the state government has claimed it has ''lost'' a Lokayukta report which indicted and recommended action against him."
Aug 20, 2011 Corrupt babus certify Hazare is four-year-old
Aug 20, 2011 Are Indian Corporates doing enough to combat corruption?: "The corrupt high-handedness of India's insular bureaucracy can be traced directly to the symbiotic relationship between the politician and the civil servant in looting the exchequer, selling patronage and extorting money from the public. If the politician had a transparent source of funding, and only if he is thus liberated from dependence on the civil servant for procurement of vital funding through corruption, he can discharge his duty of making the administrative system work as it is supposed to."
Aug 19, 2011 Top Andhra bureaucrat named in Emaar deal irregularities: "The CBI has named a senior IAS officer along with Directors of Emaar Properties and unknown public servants as accused in connection with irregularities in the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC)-Emaar land deal"
Aug 13, 2011 MCI Secy, former IHBAS chief under CBI scanner: "Dr Sangeeta Sharma, present Secretary of the Medical Council of India (MCI), is one of the officials under the scanner while the CBI has sought sanction to move against Dr Meena Gupta, former IHBAS Director and present Head of Department of Neurology at G B Pant Hospital. A senior accounts official is also being probed."
Aug 12, 2011 Hasan Gets Bail as ED Fails to Link His Money to Crime: "the Bombay High Court today granted bail to Pune stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, saying the anti-money laundering agency had failed to show that wealth allegedly amassed by him was proceeds of crime."
Aug 11, 2011 CBI chargesheets Shahi and two IAS officers: "The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed chargesheet against ex-health minister Bhanu Pratap Shahi, suspended IAS officer Pradeep Kumar and 11 other accused in Rs 130 crore medicine scam."
Aug 10, 2011 Adarsh scam: CAG report indicts ex-chief ministers: "A latest report on the Adarsh scam indicts Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh for flouting norms"
Aug 9, 2011 Adarsh scam, a case of fence eating crop: CAG: "Terming the Adarsh Housing Society scam a classic example of fence eating the crops, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Tuesday said rules were flouted to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and military authorities."
Aug 9, 2011 Karnataka Lokayukta raids six sub-registrar offices: "Karnataka’s new Lokayukta (ombudsman) Justice Shivaraj V. Patil ordered raids at six sub-registrar offices in Bangalore Rural and Doddaballapur districts and unaccounted cash running into thousands of rupees was seized from officials, brokers and agents."
Aug 9, 2011 Former Health Secretary surrenders: "Former Health Secretary and suspended IAS Dr Pradeep Kumar was on Monday sent to jail after he surrendered before the CBI court in connection with Rs 130 crore drug scam."
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