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Patna,(BiharTimes): Though 450 people came under the Vigilance net in the first five and a half years of the Nitish Kumar government only five of them were IAS and IPS officers. The rest were clerical employees.
What is more: Save Senthil Kumar, all the cases are of 2006 and 2007. Thus all this tall claim of fighting corruption was nothing but initial days image making exercise of the new government. |
It is not that cases are not coming against them. A Vigilance offcer was quoted in the Hindustan Times recently as saying: “We get one or two complaints against IAS and IPS officers every month.”
The officer recounts their names. They are former irrigation secretary, S S Verma, former DGP, Narayan Mishra, former Madhepura DM, Hem Chandra Jha, Kalika Prasad and former Commissioner, Patna Municipal Corporation, K Senthil Kumar.
The Vigilance Bureau recovered nine kilograms of gold, including 800 gold coins from the premises of S S Verma. Sources said that it is difficult to nail the IAS and IPS officers because they are more intelligent than the sleuth of the Bureau. Secondly those indulging in corrupt practices have become more alert.
These officials have stopped taking bribe directly. Recently, the department planned a trap operation against an all India Service officer who was demanding Rs five lakh as bribe from a complainant but the move failed.
There are indications that some senior officers are using the hawala route for receiving black money in other states. They are also investing in immovable property across the country many times in fictitious names or in the name of relatives. Some of them sent their sons to foreign countries in the name of doing job. They then buy swanky cars and big flats in India on the plea that it is their sons, who are earning abroad, and are buying these properties. The truth is that all these properties are bought by the officers themselves.
A member of the Vigilance team that has been on the trail of Senthil Kumar, was quoted in the same daily as saying: “We went to several places in Tamil Nadu during our investigation, The tour was an eye opener for us. Senthil Kumar comes from a poor family (of that state), but several of his relatives now have huge tracts of land in their names.”
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