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Projects Track Record CBI Land Grab Probe Wanted Indian Penalised Service Rapid Reaction Force national's 'Big Bs' Ninan's World MP Babubhai Katara, representing Dohad (ST) in Gujarat, involved in the infamous human trafficking case, was expelled from the Lok Sabha, taking the total number of members axed in the current term to a record 11 India in garbage bin Shame the corrupt with Rs0 No Cash? No problem - I take credit cards! Member's Articles: Political reforms in developing democracies Outstanding Articles: BBC: 'More poor' in India than Africa India’s filthy underbelly: "Indian society and public life has been overrun by corruption for the simple reason that, irrespective of the party or parties in power, the Governments of the day have at best sought to play it down, offered it tacit support and at worst connived with the perpetrators. Scams, frauds and other graft cases are detected with overwhelming rapidity and the latest ones surpass older ones in technique and figures involved. Everything happens right under the nose of the mighty Union Government, the agencies of which are spread across every nook and corner of the country", "Four months ago, two IAS officers (husband and wife) posted in Madhya Pradesh were suspended after a raid on their home by income tax officials led to the seizure of Rs 3.26 crore in cash, jewellery worth Rs 67 lakh, Rs 7 lakh in foreign currency and other assets. In Chhattisgarh, Rs 52 lakh in cash, jewellery worth Rs 73 lakh, and 220 fake bank accounts with transactions amounting to Rs 40 crore were seized during income tax raids in the same period; 14 bank lockers have been sealed.What has been seized, however, represents only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. The real moolah would have been converted into property or stashed away in foreign bank accounts. What’s worse is that the rot has spread everywhere: From the Income Tax Department, Customs, defence forces and IPS to health services and education. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in charge of the Department of Personnel and Training Prithviraj Chavan said, “As on March 31, 2010, the number of IAS and IPS officers facing trial for criminal charges in CBI cases is 84 and 33 for the two respective categories.”", "India has been robbed of its resources not by foreigners but by its own citizens", "India has a number of anti-corruption watchdogs, including Central Vigilance Commission, Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, the CBI, anti-corruption agencies, Intelligence Bureau, Economic Intelligence Bureau, Serious Fraud Office, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Reserve Bank of India, Defence Intelligence Agency and National Security Board besides Parliamentary Standing Committees and a ridiculously excessive number of regulators in addition to State-level agencies. It is surprising, therefore, that the Government manages to lose sight of so many frauds", "The same directive was smuggled in as a part of the Central Vigilance Commission Bill, which came into force in September 2004. Surprisingly, no political party raised a finger against it. When I made inquiries, I was informally told that the Joint Secretary’s level in the Government of India was a decision-making level. If the post was not provided protection, nobody would agree to do anything illegal at the behest of their political masters", "Corruption has become a low-risk and high-paying activity. It makes no difference that the Government increases the allocation for poverty alleviation schemes. What is the point of having schemes running into thousands of crores of rupees, in which the money, instead of reaching the intended beneficiaries, is siphoned along the way?" Lokayukta indicts BSY govt, quits: "Justice Hegde said the government had been totally non-cooperative with the Lokayukta, be it in its campaign against corruption, maladministration or to deliver justice to scores of aggrieved citizens from across the state. For the last six months, Justice Hegde said he had repeatedly requested the government to appoint a Upa Lokayukta. It was important to fill the vacancy since complaints had piled up in thousands which only the Upa Lokayukta could address under the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, he said. However, the government was totally indifferent to the request, he charged. But more damaging was Justice Hedge’s charge that the government had defeated the Lokayukta’s campaign against corrupt officials. The Lokayukta’s recommendations to the government to proceed against corrupt officials had fallen on deaf ears. Scores of bureaucrats caught in cases of corruption were suspended but soon thereafter they were reinstated, sometimes in the same post", "He cited the cases of BESCOM and BBMP officials who were reinstated after suspension. “On many occasions, the officials who had been trapped/raided were reinstated and posted in the same place. Isn’t it a slap on my face and on the Lokayukta office,” asked Hegde.", "Worse, he said, the official who was instrumental in seizing the unaccounted iron ore in Karwar at Lokayukta’s behest, was subsequently suspended by the government on the flimsy ground of dereliction of duty during a cabinet minister’s visit to the district. The reference was to Karwar DCF R Gokul who along with the Lokayukta had seized iron ore worth crores of rupees from Karwar and Belakeri ports.", "Going further, he said he was not even been able to protect his colleagues in the Lokayuka from harassment at the hands of the government. “My officers have been suffering and they have faced many threats and have been charged with SC/ST atrocity cases,” he said.", "Justice Hegde said he was “quite disturbed for the last three-and-a-half months and had sleepless nights; when I am not able to give justice to my subordinates, there is no point in continuing in the chair." 77.5% have to pay bribe for registration in Karnataka Wikipedia: Ruchika Girhotra Case: Is this Real India? If yes then Indians were probably better off even under British Raj. "Ashu was then tortured further. A roller, referred to by the police as "Mussal', was rolled on his legs and thighs after four constables boarded the roller.", "Ashu was paraded in handcuffs in his neighbourhood.", "On December 28, 1993, days after Ashu was paraded in handcuffs in his locality[12], Ruchika consumed poison. She died the next day. Rathore threw a party that night to celebrate.", "The government closed the case filed against Rathore less than a week after her death.", "Just a few months later, Rathore was promoted to additional DGP in November 1994,", "In Oct 1999, the INLD government led by Om Prakash Chautala made Rathore the police chief (DGP) of the state.[24] His name was even recommended for a President’s Police Medal For Distinguished Service by the same government in November 1999.", "Despite the CBI chargesheet, the Chautala government allowed Rathore to continue as police chief.", "Special CBI Judge Jagdev Singh Dhanjal demanded that the offence be added.", "Dhanjal was forced to take premature retirement two years later.", "The case was brought up for debate in Parliament. "After 19 years, the criminal has been found guilty but all he got as punishment was 6 months in prison. Within 10 minutes of conviction, he was out on bail. Is it not a shame for all of us?" asked CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat." Behind silence of Ruchika’s family, a tale of harassment: "Harassed is too small a word to describe what the family went through these 19 years. Initially geared up to fight the case, the father and brother backed out, terrified with the chain of events that struck them one after the other. Ruchika was suspended from the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association, which was then headed by Rathore. In September 1990, her school expelled her without citing any reason. Her father sold their house at Panchkula and Ashu, who was also in his teens, had six cases of car theft slapped on him. Ashu was arrested by the Crime Branch of Panchkula police in October 1993, allegedly at the behest of Rathore, and kept in illegal detention for a period of more than two months. He was allegedly forced to sign on blank papers, which were used by the police to show his “confessions” that he stole 11 cars. One day when he was still in illegal confinement, Ashu was allegedly taken to his house and beaten mercilessly. Rathore allegedly asked him to tell his sister that if she did not take back the complaint, her family will face the same action. On December 28, 1993, Ruchika consumed insecticide. She died the next day. She blamed herself for traumatising her family. The traumatised family left the state fearing more harassment. Ashu was acquitted by the court in all the cases later on." 5000 under-5 children die in India everyday: UNICEF CNN: Farmers sell wives to pay debts in rural India: "Some farmers work as bonded laborers for a lifetime to pay off their debts. Others here say because of years of little rain and bad harvests they are forced to give money lenders whatever they ask for. Sometimes that includes their wives.", ""Nobody's going to support or help them," Kumari says. "If a family decides not to help them, the system is already not so sensitized towards them, whether it is police, judiciary, whether the legal system. So the women themselves tend to withdraw these cases."", "During CNN's interview with the family, officials with the state magistrate's office barged into the farmer's home and began videotaping." A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission - AHRC: Custodial deaths in West Bengal and India's refusal to ratify the Convention against Torture: "The two, who had been arrested on petty charges, were locked in one of two holding cells designed to accommodate around 15 detainees, which on that day were by police records holding 262 persons. Independent witnesses suggest that the number was closer to 400. The men collapsed in temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius while pleading for water from police officers selling it at 40 Rupees (US) per bottle. Over 150 other detainees were hospitalised." Statement on 'Custodial deaths and torture in India' received by Commission on Human Rights: "Police even torture persons on receipt of bribes.", "They save influential and wealthy offenders by implicating innocent people and torturing them until a 'confession' is obtained.", "The police tortured her husband to death. Her children may have to leave school and help their mother find some food for the family lest they starve to death. Their father's murderers are still in service, and some are due for promotion. " Forbes: Will Growth Slow Corruption In India?: "Bihar, India's second poorest with a population of 75 million, more than 80% of the food is stolen" Torture main reason of death in police custody: Study: "third degree methods are used against the suspects due to social and political pressures" The criminalisation of Indian democracy: "The criminalisation of northern Indian politics has reached proportions that would be comic if its consequences were not so serious.", "at least six candidates in the seven-phase elections being held in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in the world’s largest and most vibrant democracy, had been conducting campaigns from jail, broadcasting speeches live to rallies from illegal “cell” phones linked up to microphones." The Washington Post: With Indian Politics, the Bad Gets Worse: "There were six lawmakers on hand who had just been sprung from jail so they could cast their ballots. ","Nearly a fourth of the 540 Parliament members face criminal charges, including human trafficking, immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder", "Sonia Gandhi, leader of the Congress party, enlisted the support of a former cabinet minister serving a life sentence for murder, and the minister's son was allegedly promised a cushy posting as deputy chief minister in the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand", "Bribery has made it all the more difficult to bolster a flagging infrastructure and feed a country with more malnourished children than any other in the world. Reports surfaced this week that politicians had allegedly siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars from a $2 billion program to feed schoolchildren" The who's who of corruption in India Allegations against President: President daughter's name in Pune land row Why a President with criminal antecedents? Not For President! Bank Scam, Sugar Scam & Murder cover-up More on the Jalgaon case and Pratibha Patil: "...in her petition filed in the Bombay High Court on 17 July 2007, has accused that the real conspirators behind the crime are Dr. G.N. Patil, brother of the President of India Smt. Pratibha Patil and a political rival of Prof. V.G. Patil, and Dr. Ulhas Patil, former Congress MP from the city" Pratibha Patil in godman controversy: ""I had a very happy experience here. The Baba came into the body of Hriday Mohini Dadiji. I did not know that he still talks. I thought he will say something and I will listen. But he had a chat with me and put me into difficulty. He also made me very lucky," said Pratibha Patil, Presidential candidate. This is something Patil said in Mount Abu at a conference organised by the Brahma Kumaris sect. The Baba she is taking about is the founder of the sect who died in 1969. And Patil says she spoke to his spirit through the medium of Hriday Mohini - the present head at Mount Abu centre." Pratibha Patil - Wrong Candidate for Wrong Reasons Another PIL filed against Pratibha Pratibha bank waived loans for kin before RBI shut it down Should Pratibha Patil be President? by Karan Thapar: Dilipsingh Patil, her brother, had access to a bank phone at his residence (No. 224672) which he used for his personal stock market transactions and ran up a bill of Rs 20 lakh? Multi-faceted Pratibha: It’s polytechnic scam now For family again: Patil’s MP funds for sports complex on land leased to husband society Pratibha believes in spirits? Learn from other countries: BBC: China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal 150 years in prison for Wall St swindler Bernie Madoff Death sentence for corruption:Ex-Beijing official gets death sentence: "Liu faced 10 charges for accepting bribes totaling about 7 million yuan ($1 million) and gifts in return for favors to property development companies while vice mayor" Death sentence for milk scam convicts: "BEIJING, Jan 22: A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and gave stiff jail terms to 19 others over a milk scandal that led to widespread poisoning of babies in China and dairy recalls around the world." Major corruption related news from other countries: BBC: South Africa ex-police head Selebi guilty of corruption Ex-Interpol chief convicted of corruption Corrupt Aghan officials send $4.2 billion out of Kabul Airport Kenyan MPs vote to join world's best paid lawmakers: "the Kenyan prime minister will take home over a third more than his British counterpart. He will also earn almost 10% more than the US president.", "The parliamentarians have voted to be paid a basic $44,000 (£29,000) a year. But extra allowances can bring the salary up to up to $126,000 (£84,000) after tax - a rise of 18%.", "Average annual income in Kenya is about $730 (£490), while most of the population earns less than $1 (66p) a day." Pak SC for action against MPs with fake degrees: "There is a possibility that the legislative assembly of Balochistan province may be dissolved in the coming weeks not because of any political wrangling but because more than half its members have fake degrees." Sarkozy queried over Pakistan arms cash: "In accordance with standard procedure back then (only in 2000 did France sign an OECD convention outlawing commissions), some 50m euros were paid as "sweeteners" to various senior Pakistani figures." President acts to bail out Rehman Malik: "ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday upped the ante in the government’s undeclared tussle with the superior judiciary when within hours of the Lahore High Court’s decision to uphold a sentence against Interior Minister Rehman Malik in a NAB corruption case, he used his discretionary powers under Article 45 to grant remission to his trusted aide and lieutenant who runs the country’s law and order apparatus." (Corrupt politicians of Third World countires can probably be brought to justice only by International Criminal Court) Pak Interior Minister faces 3-year imprisonment: "Malik was accused of receiving two luxury cars as graft and taking away 20-tola and Rs 700,000 from the house of an accused during a raid by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in mid 1990s. He was then assistant director of FIA." BBC: Rajapaksa dynasty out in force for general election BBC: Pakistan to ask Switzerland to reopen Zardari cases Murky world of corruption in China Police kill man in Haiti over allegedly stolen rice France asks for information on President Zardari: "One leaked French report on the affair said that the commissions paid to Pakistani figures were ordered by Zardari", "11 were killed in May 2002 by Pakistani agents taking revenge after a new French government cancelled illegal commissions on an arms deal." UN reveals Afghan corruption woes: "half of all Afghans have had to pay a bribe for a public service. The report said Afghans paid over $2.5bn worth in bribes over the last year alone, exactly the same figure generated by the country's opium trade." Pakistan: 45pc drugs are spurious, NA told CNN: Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for 'pact to the devil' Corrupt to the bone: "a former naval chief has confirmed that a deal to purchase submarines from France did indeed involve kickbacks for key officials in office at the time. Among them of course was a certain Mr Asif Ali Zardari." BBC: Travel ban for Pakistani minister in corruption inquiry: "The Supreme Court has called for all these cases to be re-opened, with hundreds of senior politicians and civilian bureaucrats now facing criminal and corruption charges." CNN: Pakistan president loses amnesty for corruption charges NRO list out, 34 politicians among 8,000 beneficiaries: "The list shows that a total of 8,041 people — 7,793 from Sindh — have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007. These people have got withdrawn 3,478 cases (3,320 in Sindh) registered against them on charges of corruption, financial bungling, misuse of authority and criminal charges." (This is really a justice or just a nonsense of a typical Third world country?) Pak president Zardari received millions of dollars as bribe in French submarine deal: French daily Zardari is a criminal, a fraud and a third rater: Musharraf Pakistan nuclear program – a monstrosity for its adversaries: "n the current budget which is entirely tied to assistance promised by friends of Pakistan or IMF loans, Rs. 1.2 billion has been set aside for PM’s foreign tours and Rs. 230 million is kept for presidential tours. Rs. 645 million has been earmarked for 342 MNAs for conveyance allowance and air tickets. 90 ministers of the cabinet cost Rs. 90 crores a month." Ousted Thai PM Thaksin guilty of corruption: "two years imprisonment" Officials fall to Kazakh corruption drive Role of CBI: Role of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Short statements: "The country’s education system is obsolete. This is the moment to create a groundswell for a generational change in education" : National Knowledge Commission chairman Sam Pitroda (source: http://www.dailypioneer.com/). Coming soon: Corruption dynamics in Third world countries: State sponsored exploitation of common citizens: masses starve, their representatives enjoy dinner at 7 star hotels. My experience with corruption in India: According to my experience, I found India to be such a lawless and corrupt country that I can not dare to write the details here. Typical bribe rates in different locations and in different offices in India: Land registration bribe: 1% of the registered value of the land plot. Encumbrance certificate for a land plot: INR 500 including INR 175 of the actual fee. Birth certificate: INR 200 (rural municipality), INR 500 (urban municipality) Anti-corruption Insurance Scheme: Expenses for the personal legal fight against corruption in India will be covered under this scheme. Please contact us if you are interested in such schemes. Scheme will be launched after sufficient number of committed clients. List of judicial professionals willing to offer their professional services at reasonable consultation fees in order to fight against corruption in India. Corruption index of leading politicians of India based on citizens / netizens feedback and website judges. |
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