Dilip Cherian

Mar 31, 2010
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Dilip Cherian

Dilli ka babu

Slow practice
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)’s annual report for 2010 reveals about many corrupt babus who had managed to evade penalty mostly due to government passivity. Last year, according to the report, the panel investigated 5,783 complaints of corruption, but only 42 per cent of the tainted babus were penalised. I

End of the line

B.S. Lalli, the controversial chief executive officer of Prasar Bharati, survived many attempts to dislodge him but two weeks after President Pratibha Patil’s assent to a Supreme Court-led inquiry against him for various administrative and financial improprieties, the government has finally acted and suspended him. The 1971 batch

Nervous babus

Nemesis is catching up with tainted babus. Former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh Neera Yadav, now out on bail, did go to jail for a land allotment scam, while several senior officials of the telecom ministry linked to A. Raja are facing Central Bureau of Investigation heat in the 2G scam. They include former telecom secretary Siddharth Behuria, K. Sridhar, A.K. Srivastava and R.K. Chandola.

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CVC Thomas gets support

Homegrown crisis

The arrest and subsequent suspension of a senior home ministry official Ravi Inder Singh for corporate snooping is a major embarrassment for home ministry head honchos who had made internal security a

Babus fear transparency

In these times of Right to Information (RTI) and increased public pressure for transparency in government, babus are finding it hard to adapt to these new demands. But ever since Union ministers and Supreme Court judges agreed to divulge their assets under the RTI Act, the pressure is now on the bureaucracy to follow suit.

Changes in the offing?

Right now the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) must be the busiest agency with its sleuths investigating just about every major scam that has hit the headlines in recent weeks. But there is another exercise underway within India’s premier investigating agency — the hunt for a new director. The present director, Ashwini Kumar, is

Against the grain

It takes a babu with strong convictions, or considerable political ballast, to question a revered policy of the government. Kaushik Basu seems to possess both. Sources say that Mr Basu, the respected Harvard don brought in by Pranab Babu and Manmohan Singh last year as the chief economic adviser, has circulated a paper on food security within an interested circle, arguing that the public distribution system be rolled up.

Badals and their babus

There are times when taking sides in political battles backfire on babus. Two senior Indian Police Service officers in Punjab now face trial for perjury and misconduct in the case of disproportionate assets against chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, his wife, and son Sukhbir Badal. Apparently, the men who investigated the case — SP Vigilance Surinder Pal Singh and DIG B.K. Uppal — did not support the prosecution case. The court noted that the two had fabricated evidence and harassed witnesses which led to the Badals getting acquitted.

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Govt on the mat

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