No details given on assets of corrupt babus, angry Lokayukta writes to CS

THE State government is not cooperating in combating corruption and is failing to provide necessary details of movable and immovable assets of its servants, to scrutinise their disproportionate assets (DA) by the Karnataka Lokayukta, resulting in shielding corrupt public servants.

- YATHIRAJU @ Bengaluru

The assets are inherited, acquired or held by them either in their name or the names of the family.

The non-cooperative attitude of babus who are heads of various departments of the state government has created a hurdle for the police wing of the anti-corruption body at the initial stage itself, of its fight against corruption as they were not able to examine and generate even source reports against the suspected officials.

This, after receiving complaints against them and to proceed against them to scrutinise the DA possessed by them.

Experiencing the difficulty of gathering information due to non-cooperation, the helpless police wing approached Lokayukta Justice BS Patil to find a solution.

Enraged by the attitude of babus, Justice Patil wrote to Chief Secretary Shalini Rajneesh to draw her attention.