FUNNY EXPERIENCE WITH A CORRUPT OFFICIAL

After successfully contesting a claim and orders in favour, I got a surprise call from the official concerned who has passed the order.  He intimated that a retired HC Judge requires assistance from an Advocate and asked me to accompany him to his house.  Since it was my first encounter of such kind, I obliged.  I visited the official's rented residence (at that area, he must have been paying 90% salary towards House-rent alone!!!).  He said that judge's house is at so & so area which was nearby. I asked him to sit in my motorcycle as a pillion rider.  With his fatty belly, he was unable to climb onto it!  I moved the bike to a nearby platform and assisted him to park himself on the bike. I rode the vehicle like a teen-ager with his girlfriend!!  Not spared a single speed-breaker and I tried to go as fast I could in the narrow lanes purposely.    I could hear his faint chanting of mantras !!! (This experience caused inconvenience to him and while returning he said that he will walk!!)

After reaching the judge's home (he was not a HC Judge, but a District Judge retired from a lucrative court from the extreme southern part of Tamil Nadu.  The House was marvelous.  Even a retired SC Judge or Minister cannot have such a house in such a locality.   Judge was not at home.  It was a year-end, hence the Judge went to make courtesy visits to HC judges, I was told.  Then, the official informed that the judge's son-in-law is an unemployed engineer and wants a placement.  Since I was a Legal Adviser to a Software company, he suggested that the son-in-law be placed over there.  I politely told him that the company may not be suitable for him since it is a smaller one.  But, he insisted that he needs it, because the company is located nearby!  Then I asked him submit the resume through e-mail, but, the official insisted that I collect the resume personally, too.  Thereafter he called the son-in-law to the hall where we were seated.   A guy with around 5 lakhs worth jeweller on his body made an entry.  When I saw his resume, I hardly could control my laugh.  So many spelling mistakes (Even the place of his college was misspelled!).  I presumed he paid for the degree.  I was so annoyed that this official has cheated me by saying that a Judge needs assistance and never uttered about the job.  I was wondering what connection this official could have got from the Judge.  Then I realised that this chap was recently transferred from Delhi and judge could have helped him to gain the transfer.  I asked them to drop an email to the concerned HR Manager and I will also inform him personally.  

As is the norms with corporate HR person, they never listen to anyone (and in this case, I didn't want also!!), I informed the company's director regarding the obligation sought by the official and said that I am not favouring it.  Director said that for 'eye-wash' let the person be interviewed.  I informed the HR Manager (who himself rose from a mere Programmer to the HR post, funny thing with the company was they hire anyone if the person is looking good and speaks english well.  There was a HR Executive I was told that he went to sell some books to the Director and he was hired for his English.  Later when the chap started downloading pornography he was fired!).   I asked the HR chap to make the interview so tough.  After the interview, the HR person said that he sincerely doubted as to how this person has passed Xth Standard.  I told him, 'money does wonders, and he is now son-in-law of a Judge who needs employment just for time-pass!'.  HR sent a 'regret' letter.  

The official stopped talking with me (spoke to me only 3-4 times regarding the job) and when I visited the office after several months, his higher official was arrested by CBI for bribery and amassing wealth.  This official got her position !!!

Democracy!!!!

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LOSS OF HUMAN LIVES DUE TO CORRUPT PRACTICES

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Four students on footboard die as lorry backs into bus

TNN | Dec 11, 2012, 01.51 AM IST

CHENNAI: Four students travelling on the footboard of an overcrowded Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus died and three others were injured when a brick-laden lorry hit the bus at Kandanchavadi near Perungudi, on Old Mahabalipuram Road(OMR), on Monday morning.

The lorry was moving backwards when it smashed into the bus, crushing the students hanging out of the vehicle's rear door, in the worst accident of its kind in the city. At least one person dies every 10 days in Chennai while travelling on the footboard of a bus or attempting to board or alight from a moving vehicle. 

Police said the victims - two schools students, one college student and a polytechnic student - were all standing on the steps of the MTC bus (route no 519), which was going from Tiruporur to T Nagar when the accident occurred at 7.45 am.

The lorry driver attempted to turn left into a narrow lane but the vehicle started sliding back after failing to clear a cement-tiled pavement that separated the lane from the main road. The bus driver tried to go past the lorry when he saw it backing up but could not make it in time.

Police said Sekar, 18, a BCom first year student of Nandanam Arts College, Balamurugan, 14, a Class 10 student, Vijayan, 16, a Plus-2 student, and Manoj Kumar, a second-year diploma student at Central Polytechnic College in Taramani, died in the accident."

The above narrated accident was not a freak accident, it was purely a case of 'corrupt practices of local counsellors'.  A service road was made as a pass-lane.  Had the service-lane rules were strictly enforced and the road was not opened as a by-lane, innocent lives could have been saved.  

After the accident, when I passed through the place, I enquired nearby shop-keepers and learnt that Rs. 1 lakh was paid by adjacent building owners to have the road opening!!!

This is not just one accident where corruption was the root-cause for the accident.  There are several illegal occupancy of the roads and violation of rules in maintaining service-lanes which seizes several lives in road accidents!

Corrupt policemen and negotiations

About a decade back, when a 'Vehicle Financier' was alleged to have committed an offence under 'SC/ST atrocities Act', I appeared on behalf of the Financier during police enquiry.  Brief facts of the case :-  (1)  A defaulter's vehicle was impounded by the financier; (2)  The borrower approached local goons who hired a 'Caste Lawyer' to lodge a complaint that the financier abused the borrower by his caste name!

The incident alleged to have happened at the financier's office.  There was no witness to the incident. For a mere financial transaction case, a false case under SC/ST atrocity act was slapped to threaten and budge the financier.

When negotiation (paying the due amount with reduced interest!! & returning of vehicle (in such an unusable condition!!!) finalised and case compromised, the police SI (new into the service) started demanding 'fees' for his services from the Financier!  The financier reluctantly paid him Rs. 500/-.  Feeling low, the SI called me and said that 'see sir, 3 days I handled this case and he paid only Rs. 500/-'.   I told him to see the plight of the complainant.  He paid Rs. 45,000/- to get his vehicle back.  Further, he hired a local caste-lawyer by paying Rs. 5000/- + expenses for his stay at a lodge (a group stayed in a lodge (just 25 Kms from his office to the police station) for 3 days.  Comparing the miseries he faced, his plight is none.

Further, I informed him that during those 3 days, I skipped my lunch for 2 days.  (Third day, I insisted that I cannot wait for the complainant's lawyer to come after his siesta and went to have my lunch!)

Fun with Corrupt Society

Around 3 decades back, when we were in Higher Secondary, myself and 2 of my classmates were returning from a movie during evening hours in 2 bicycles.  At a traffic signal, one of my classmate stopped his bicycle on 'stop line'.  When the signal cleared and we moved, a traffic policeman came and caught our cycles and asked to come to nearest police station which was just few feet away from the signal point.  We went there and requested him to return our cycles' keys.  He gave the keys to a Head constable and started giving us lectures about honesty and integrity in foreign countries.  He quoted an example that in Singapore there are several shops wherein you can carry your own basket of goods to the billing counter (That concept was not introduced in India, then!) and people over there never steal,etc., Finally, after preaching/lecturing for about 1/2 hour, he relieved us to collect the keys from Head constable after paying Rs. 5/- for each cycle.  I reminded him politely that only one cycle was stopped over the 'stop line' and my cycle was within the stop limit.  He said 'no argument'.  We paid after accumulating all the coins we had with us (that time a movie ticket in an AC theater costs only Rs. 2.90, so we three lost a movie's cost to the Honest policemen!).

While returning home, I promised to my classmates that if I ever write a book, I will surely mention this incident at the first page dedicating to the particular policemen.  That time there were no Blogs, hence, I could not swear on it!

After the incident, we made it a point to carry minimum Rs. 5/- with us all the time!!

So emboldened with the system, we started moving in one cycle (called 'triples').  Twice we were caught by the police.  Once a policeman known to my classmate left us with a warning (Next day he went to his father's shop and narrated our misadventure and collect Rs. 2/-!!!).  Second time, we couldn't notice a police station and a Sentry got so annoyed that 'how dare you people ride triples in front of a police station?' (Later we learnt that he cannot leave his post and cannot carry out policing on street!) and removed air from our cycle's tyres (both wheels, of course!, we were lucky that he didn't throw the 'mouth' of the tube!)

Still the situation in Indian Roads are same, except for the Bicycle!!

Recent floods at Chennai - A lesson for allowing corrupt elements in Govt

Had the officials performed their duty of preventing illegal construction on water-beds and illegal occupancy of roads and pavements, Chennai would have not lost several crores worth of roads and human lives.

For the sake of illegally earning few hundred rupees by few, several crores of tax-payers' money went into sewage!

Times of India : Committee finds anomalies in 500 Anna university appointments

Committee finds anomalies in 500 Anna university appointments

COIMBATORE: Eight years after the regional centres of Anna University Coimbatore, Trichy and Tirunelveli, and five years after the Madurai centre was established, a committee has found irregularities with the appointments of more than 500 teaching and non-teaching staff. The irregularities pertain to educational qualification and pay anomalies. 

According to a university source, the committee submitted its report to Anna University 15 days ago. Following the submission of this report, the state government ordered the university to study the findings, and suggest solutions to regularize these appointments. Towards this end, the Anna University syndicate constituted a seven-member committee under the chairmanship of a senior government official last week. 

These irregularities in appointments were identified during the merger process of the four Anna University centres. "After the four centres came under the administration of Anna University, Chennai, we began transferring all the teaching and non-teaching staff appointments under the Chennai campus. During this process, irregularities in the appointments of certain teaching and non-teaching staff were identified," said a senior administrative official of the university said. 

The seven-member committee at present is studying the possibility of regularizing the appointments. "We are studying the report submitted by the committee. Most of the irregularities pertain to lack of educational qualifications and pay anomalies," said a member of the committee. The committee is verifying the details of the candidates with all the four centres to regularize the appointments. 

Another member of the university administration, who is informed about the developments of the seven-member committee, said, "As far as we understand, no candidate will be fired from the job. Since they have all worked for eight years with the university, we will try to fit them in the university's postings." 

On why these irregularities happened, a senior professor of the university in Chennai, said, "The appointments could have been made due to the dire need of staff when these centres were started. As far educational qualifications are concerned, we cannot deny that eligible candidates did not apply for the posts. But, we cannot do anything about it because the administration at that time was different. We are only trying to resolve things without affecting anyone's career." 

The seven-member committee has been directed by the state government to submit its findings as soon as possible. Based on their recommendations, the state government will take decisions. A committee member said that the recommendations could be submitted in the next 10 to 15 days.