Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Bureaucrats under siege

Officialdom is under threat. The latest trend is for MPs to snow the PMO with letters demanding probes into disproportionate assets of bureaucrats, serving or retired. The "babus" past and present are a bit unnerved. Some of the allegations provide juicy details. Some of them have been
close to a leading industrial house.

The Chief Vigilance Commissioner and the CBI chief are among the recipients of these letters. The targets are senior officers who are, or were, serving in economic ministries as well as Railways, Excise & Customs and Income- tax. One common allegation is that the children of all the officials under scrutiny are abroad, studying or making hay !!

Is this in-fighting within the services, settling of old scores or witch hunting ?

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