Wednesday, June 5, 2024

The Iceberg of Corruption in India - Is It an Issue under Analysis by Public, Social Activists, Politicians and Academicians?

 

Why use the term Iceberg?

What is reported in the press will be miniscule. What is going on is many many times that is reported in the press as arrests by Anticorruption burearus or CBI.

Many who are undertaking corrupt activities are very confident that no body will be able to prove them. It is their experience as they are mentored by many successful bureaurucrats and politicians.


6.6.2024

10,000 Crore Rupees - Seized by Election Commission of India in 2024 Lok Sabha Election.

How much would have been spent by the political parties?

https://guide-india.blogspot.com/2024/06/10000-crore-rupees-seized-by-election.html


4.3.2024


The following news item regarding arrest of 2 senior NHAI officials and recovery of Rs. 1.1 crore prompted me to compile this collection of news items regarding corruption and bribes.


2 NHAI officials among 6 held by CBI bribery case, Rs 1 crore found

Mar 4, 2024,

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/108186664.cms


https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/cbi-arrests-2-nhai-officials-in-bribery-case-rs-11-crore-cash-recovered20240304065112/


https://www.business-standard.com/pti-stories/national/nagpur-outer-ring-road-corruption-cbi-arrests-nhai-gm-dgm-in-rs-20-lakh-bribery-case-124030300665_1.html


https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cbi-nhai-general-manager-20-lakh-bribe-9193803/

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Elections and Corruption Analysis by Voters


Election season: Is public examining the track record and behaviour of each candidate? Is it examining the track record of each political party? Is any NGO providing data, analysis and information on the same. Is any media publication providing relevant information in a neutral and objective basis.


PM Narendra Modi said in an election rally - Parivarvad parties are involved in jhoot and loot. Corruption is an issue in elections and is being emphasized by PM himself.

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News Regarding Corruption in Press 


Electoral Bonds Scheme and Corruption

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Electoral bonds: A look at top buyers, other key numbers

16 March 2024 Read more at:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/electoral-bonds-a-look-at-top-buyers-other-key-numbers/articleshow/108533343.cms


Constitutionality of the Electoral Bond Scheme

Association for Democratic Reforms v Union of India


Citation: 2024 INSC 113


The Supreme Court held that the Electoral Bond Scheme was unconstitutional for violating the right to information of voters.

CASE DETAILS

Case Number:

Writ Petition (Civil) No.880/2017

Last Updated: March 15, 2024

https://www.scobserver.in/cases/association-for-democratic-reforms-electoral-bonds-case-background/



Electoral Bonds: The Safeguards of Indian Democracy Are Crumbling

MILAN VAISHNAV

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

HUFFPOST INDIA


Summary:  India’s electoral bonds have only legitimized opacity. The government has promised reform, while doubling down on nefarious old habits, and this new instrument has intensified the crisis confronting India’s much-vaunted apex institutions.


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Explained: SC Judgment on Sita Soren Case

The Leaflet | 05 Mar 2024

Politics

India

The Bench held that corruption and bribery by members of the legislatures erode probity in public life.


https://main.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2014/10177/10177_2014_1_1501_51211_Judgement_04-Mar-2024.pdf


MLA Bribery: Special Leave Petition Summary (Sita Soren)

Gauri Kashyap | 8th Jun 2021


The petitioner, Sita Soren was accused of taking a bribe for a vote casted in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. A complaint was filed to the Chief Election Commissioner of India. A CBI investigation concluded that Sita Soren had received the bribe.


The petitioner was charged with criminal conspiracy under Section 120B and bribery under Section 171E of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; and for criminal misconduct by a public servant under Section 13(1)(d) of The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.


The Jharkhand High Court   in its order noted that the petitioner did not cast her vote for the person for which she was bribed. Since the exact act for which she received the bribe did not take place, and a direct nexus between voting and the bribe did not exist, the immunity did not apply.

In 2014, Ms. Sita Soren filed an appeal against this order in the Supreme Court.

https://www.scobserver.in/reports/sita-soren-union-india-mla-bribery-special-leave-petition-summary/


Ms. Sita Soren now in BJP

JMM legislator Sita Soren, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday (19.3.2024).

https://www.rediff.com/news/report/shibu-sorens-daughter-in-law-quits-jmm/20240319.htm


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Apoorva Jayachandran

Tirupati,UPDATED: Feb 19, 2024 09:56 IST

Edited By: Karishma Saurabh Kalita


CBI arrests four Railway officials


In Short

CBI arrests four Railway officials in bribery cases.

Two officials caught red-handed while accepting bribes.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/cbi-arrests-four-railway-officials-in-separate-bribery-cases-2503947-2024-02-19


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CBI arrests EPFO officers in bribery case in Lucknow

"Searches are being conducted at four locations in Lucknow on the official and residential premises of the accused," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.

January 31, 2024 03:25 pm | Updated 03:25 pm IST - New Delhi

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/cbi-arrests-epfo-officers-in-bribery-case-in-lucknow/article67796034.ece


2023


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19 October 2023

More than 118 case pending sanction to prosecute public officials for corruption.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/over-118-cases-of-corruption-involving-public-servants-await-prosecution-sanction-dopt-data/article67438427.ece


CBI registers five corruption cases against Military Engineering Services officers

According the central agency, former Garrison Engineer awarded 59 contracts to private firms between 2020 and 2023 and amount was paid to the contractors, but work was never executed.

July 22, 2023 

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/cbi-registers-five-corruption-cases-against-military-engineering-services-officers/article67106048.ece



2022

Thane ACB slaps Rs 8 crore corruption case on ex-BJP MLA from MiraBhayander, Narendra Mehta.
May 20, 2022

Read more at:


IIM-Rohtak director appointment

Govt finally admits irregularities in IIM-Rohtak director appointment; the Board should rethink his second term
Whether it was political influence or corruption that allowed Sharma to game the system, or convinced the system to lower its scrutiny, the revelations now send a warning to the IIMs.

Updated: March 18, 2022 09:08 IST

13-01-2022

CBI ARRESTS SENIOR MANAGER DSIIDC, DELHI AND A PRIVATE PERSON IN A BRIBERY CASE OF Rs. 1.70 LAKH

PRESS RELEASE


Dated 13.01.2022


The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Senior Manager, Delhi State lndustrial and lnfrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. (DSllDC), Delhi and a private person for demanding & accepting bribe of Rs.1,70,000/- from the complainant.

https://cbi.gov.in/press-detail/NDY0Nw==



09-09-2021



CBI ARRESTS AN ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER AND A SUPERINTENDENT, CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT IN BRIBERY CASE

Press Release


Dated: 09.09.2021



The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Additional Commissioner and a Superintendent, Customs Department in a bribery case of Rs.1.30 Lakh.


2020

Corruption not unique to India.
Top 10 Bribery & Corruption Stories of 2020 - International Cases

2019

BJP’s Muralidhar Rao, 8 others booked for cheating
Mar 27, 2019
HYDERABAD: A criminal case was filed on Tuesday against BJP national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao and eight others 
for allegedly collecting Rs 2.17 crore from a city-based realtor by promising him a nominated post in the central government. 


Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/68589643.cms


Cheating case against BJP leader Muralidhar Rao, 8 others
PTI
  • Updated Mar 27, 2019, 1:42 PM IST

Telangana high court asks about BJP leader case
16 July 2019


Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Monday directed the police to submit a status report about the investigation done so far in the case filed against BJP leader P. Muralidhar Rao and eight others at the Saroornagar police station that they had cheated a city resident by promising a nominated post at the Centre.



2018

CBI chief Alok Verma, deputy Rakesh Asthana stripped of charge, new team to probe bribery case
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By
Rajesh Ahuja
Oct 24, 2018 03:26 PM IST

Joint director M Nageshwar Rao was appointed as interim chief of the CBI in a late night development. Chief Alok Verma and deputy Rakesh Asthana were removed from charge.

Oct 22, 2018
CBI raids CBI, arrests its own officer in bribery case against special director Rakesh Asthana
Asthana is named as the prime accused in an FIR that was filed on October 15. He is alleged to have received kickbacks, amounting to Rs 2 crore, from Moin Qureshi, a meat exporter, to settle a money-laundering case against him.

2017
Lecture on Economics of Corruption Held at IIM Indore

As a part of the Economic Lecture series conducted by the Institute, a lecture on Economics of Corruption was held at IIM Indore on February 10, 2017 by Professor Vivekananda Mukherjee, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University.

2016

Social Norms Regarding Bribing in India: An Experimental Analysis

Author(s) Name: Ritwik Banerjee, Tushi Baul and Tanya Rosenblat
Journal Name : Journal of Contextual Economics
Volume : Vol. 136, No. 2, 2016, Pg. 171-197
Year of Publication : 2016

2015

IIM scam accused brought to city
April 27, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:39 am IST - KOCHI


: Muhammad Aslam and Zegam Abbas, the two persons arrested from Lucknow last week by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with tampering of results of the Common Admission Test (CAT), were brought to Kochi on Sunday.

The duo, brought to Kochi on a transit warrant from a local court in Uttar Pradesh, was interrogated by the CBI officials.

2009

IT betters govt service, but fails to check bribery: IIM-A study
ET BureauLast Updated: Nov 17, 2009, 06:17:00 AM IST
Even as the Indian government seeks to modernise its ailing and corrupt departments by deploying software and computer hardware solutions, bribery rates continue to rise, according to a recent study by IIM-Ahmedabad.

Read more at:


To be continued with more news items.



Ud. 6.6.2024, 19.3, 17.3.2024
Pub 4.3.2024






















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