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&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;Satyendra Dubey, Amit Jethwa, Ram Thakur, Shimbhu Bishnoi, Satish Shetty, Lalit Mehta, Lingaraju, Nandi Singh - some of the names ring a bell, others don&#039;t. Some became primetime news, others were buried in barely noticeable corners of newspapers. But they all belong to the select tribe of whistleblowers killed in line of duty for daring to expose corruption.
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On Monday, their friends and relatives came from faraway villages and towns in Bihar, Rajasthan and Gujarat to register their protest against the Congress-led UPA government dragging its feet over the pending Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill in the 15th Lok Sabha.
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On a grey winter afternoon, they demonstrated outside the Congress office and later visited the BJP office too. The families also wrote an open letter to leaders of all major political parties - Congress, BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool, DMK, CPM and others - urging them to pass these bills at the earliest. The letter was endorsed by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the National Campaign for People&#039;s Right to Information (NCPRI).
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&amp;quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP&#039;s Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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More than 30 whistleblowers fighting against corruption have been killed between 2010 &amp;amp; 2014, according to statistics provided by NCPRI.
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In 2004, Supreme Court had directed that a mechanism to protect whistleblowers should be put in place. The directive had come after the killing of engineer Satyendra Dube in November 2003. He had written to PMO about corruption in a national highway project. The letter was leaked and Satyendra often faced threats.
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One of the protestors, his brother Dhananjay Kumar Dubey, an electronics engineer in Noida, said that the Witness Protection Bill would have forced PMO to take special security measures for his safety. &amp;quot;Even the letter might not have been leaked,&amp;quot; he added.
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Such cases abound. In March 2013, Ram Kumar, a lawyer and RTI activist from Bihar&#039;s Muzaffarnagar district was killed. He had filed a case with the State Vigilance Commission for alleged mismanagement of funds in MGNREGS and was also regularly filing uncomfortable RTI queries to probe corruption in various departments. During a social audit, he had raised objections to the inclusion of &#039;ghost&#039; names in the muster rolls. In solidarity and to take his endeavour forward, over 165 men and women from his village Ratnauli came to the capital.
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&amp;quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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&amp;quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP&#039;s Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&amp;quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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&lt;em&gt;NEW DELHI: &lt;/em&gt;Satyendra Dubey, Amit Jethwa, Ram Thakur, Shimbhu Bishnoi, Satish Shetty, Lalit Mehta, Lingaraju, Nandi Singh - some of the names ring a bell, others don&#039;t. Some became primetime news, others were buried in barely noticeable corners of newspapers. But they all belong to the select tribe of whistleblowers killed in line of duty for daring to expose corruption.
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On Monday, their friends and relatives came from faraway villages and towns in Bihar, Rajasthan and Gujarat to register their protest against the Congress-led UPA government dragging its feet over the pending Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill in the 15th Lok Sabha.
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On a grey winter afternoon, they demonstrated outside the Congress office and later visited the BJP office too. The families also wrote an open letter to leaders of all major political parties - Congress, BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool, DMK, CPM and others - urging them to pass these bills at the earliest. The letter was endorsed by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the National Campaign for People&#039;s Right to Information (NCPRI).
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&amp;quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP&#039;s Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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Introduced in 2010, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill is now with the Rajya Sabha; the lower House cleared it in 2011. The Grievance Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2011. The standing committees have given their reports on both the bills. As per the Constitution, bills which originate in the lower House are deemed to have lapsed once a particular Lok Sabha is dissolved.
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More than 30 whistleblowers fighting against corruption have been killed between 2010 &amp;amp; 2014, according to statistics provided by NCPRI.
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In 2004, Supreme Court had directed that a mechanism to protect whistleblowers should be put in place. The directive had come after the killing of engineer Satyendra Dube in November 2003. He had written to PMO about corruption in a national highway project. The letter was leaked and Satyendra often faced threats.
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One of the protestors, his brother Dhananjay Kumar Dubey, an electronics engineer in Noida, said that the Witness Protection Bill would have forced PMO to take special security measures for his safety. &amp;quot;Even the letter might not have been leaked,&amp;quot; he added.
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Such cases abound. In March 2013, Ram Kumar, a lawyer and RTI activist from Bihar&#039;s Muzaffarnagar district was killed. He had filed a case with the State Vigilance Commission for alleged mismanagement of funds in MGNREGS and was also regularly filing uncomfortable RTI queries to probe corruption in various departments. During a social audit, he had raised objections to the inclusion of &#039;ghost&#039; names in the muster rolls. In solidarity and to take his endeavour forward, over 165 men and women from his village Ratnauli came to the capital.
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&amp;quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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In Rajasthan&#039;s Jodhpur district, Shimbhu Bishnoi was kidnapped and brutally murdered in October 2013. He had been filing RTI queries to expose corruption in MGNREGS job cards. &amp;quot;Even today we are getting threats,&amp;quot; said his nephew Banwari Bishnoi.
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Activists as well as family members of these activists feel that both Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill are extremely critical to empower people to fight corruption and to ensure that people&#039;s everyday grievances and complaints are redressed. &amp;quot;The passage of these two bills is essential to complete the anti-corruption and grievance redress framework,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj said.
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On a grey winter afternoon, they demonstrated outside the Congress office and later visited the BJP office too. The families also wrote an open letter to leaders of all major political parties - Congress, BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool, DMK, CPM and others - urging them to pass these bills at the earliest. The letter was endorsed by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the National Campaign for People&#039;s Right to Information (NCPRI).
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&amp;quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP&#039;s Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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One of the protestors, his brother Dhananjay Kumar Dubey, an electronics engineer in Noida, said that the Witness Protection Bill would have forced PMO to take special security measures for his safety. &amp;quot;Even the letter might not have been leaked,&amp;quot; he added.
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&amp;quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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&amp;quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP&#039;s Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&amp;quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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&amp;quot;It&#039;s been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&amp;quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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On Monday, their friends and relatives came from faraway villages and towns in Bihar, Rajasthan and Gujarat to register their protest against the Congress-led UPA government dragging its feet over the pending Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill in the 15th Lok Sabha.
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On a grey winter afternoon, they demonstrated outside the Congress office and later visited the BJP office too. The families also wrote an open letter to leaders of all major political parties - Congress, BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool, DMK, CPM and others - urging them to pass these bills at the earliest. The letter was endorsed by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI).
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&quot;We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP's Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends,&quot; Bhardwaj told TOI.
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Introduced in 2010, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill is now with the Rajya Sabha; the lower House cleared it in 2011. The Grievance Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2011. The standing committees have given their reports on both the bills. As per the Constitution, bills which originate in the lower House are deemed to have lapsed once a particular Lok Sabha is dissolved.
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In 2004, Supreme Court had directed that a mechanism to protect whistleblowers should be put in place. The directive had come after the killing of engineer Satyendra Dube in November 2003. He had written to PMO about corruption in a national highway project. The letter was leaked and Satyendra often faced threats.
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One of the protestors, his brother Dhananjay Kumar Dubey, an electronics engineer in Noida, said that the Witness Protection Bill would have forced PMO to take special security measures for his safety. &quot;Even the letter might not have been leaked,&quot; he added.
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Such cases abound. In March 2013, Ram Kumar, a lawyer and RTI activist from Bihar's Muzaffarnagar district was killed. He had filed a case with the State Vigilance Commission for alleged mismanagement of funds in MGNREGS and was also regularly filing uncomfortable RTI queries to probe corruption in various departments. During a social audit, he had raised objections to the inclusion of 'ghost' names in the muster rolls. In solidarity and to take his endeavour forward, over 165 men and women from his village Ratnauli came to the capital.
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&quot;It's been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption,&quot; said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch.
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In Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, Shimbhu Bishnoi was kidnapped and brutally murdered in October 2013. He had been filing RTI queries to expose corruption in MGNREGS job cards. &quot;Even today we are getting threats,&quot; said his nephew Banwari Bishnoi.
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Activists as well as family members of these activists feel that both Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill are extremely critical to empower people to fight corruption and to ensure that people's everyday grievances and complaints are redressed. &quot;The passage of these two bills is essential to complete the anti-corruption and grievance redress framework,&quot; Bhardwaj said.
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Slain whistleblowers’ kin push for anti-graft bills -Avijit Ghosh

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Satyendra Dubey, Amit Jethwa, Ram Thakur, Shimbhu Bishnoi, Satish Shetty, Lalit Mehta, Lingaraju, Nandi Singh - some of the names ring a bell, others don't. Some became primetime news, others were buried in barely noticeable corners of newspapers. But they all belong to the select tribe of whistleblowers killed in line of duty for daring to expose corruption. On Monday, their friends and relatives came from faraway villages and towns in Bihar, Rajasthan and Gujarat to register their protest against the Congress-led UPA government dragging its feet over the pending Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill in the 15th Lok Sabha. On a grey winter afternoon, they demonstrated outside the Congress office and later visited the BJP office too. The families also wrote an open letter to leaders of all major political parties - Congress, BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, Trinamool, DMK, CPM and others - urging them to pass these bills at the earliest. The letter was endorsed by Aruna Roy, Nikhil Dey and Anjali Bhardwaj of the National Campaign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI). "We met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi last week. We also met BJP's Arun Jaitley and Ravishankar Prasad. All of them said their parties were committed to passing these bills. So what is stopping them? With real political intent, there is no reason why the bills cannot be passed before the session ends," Bhardwaj told TOI. Introduced in 2010, the Whistleblowers Protection Bill is now with the Rajya Sabha; the lower House cleared it in 2011. The Grievance Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2011. The standing committees have given their reports on both the bills. As per the Constitution, bills which originate in the lower House are deemed to have lapsed once a particular Lok Sabha is dissolved. More than 30 whistleblowers fighting against corruption have been killed between 2010 & 2014, according to statistics provided by NCPRI. In 2004, Supreme Court had directed that a mechanism to protect whistleblowers should be put in place. The directive had come after the killing of engineer Satyendra Dube in November 2003. He had written to PMO about corruption in a national highway project. The letter was leaked and Satyendra often faced threats. One of the protestors, his brother Dhananjay Kumar Dubey, an electronics engineer in Noida, said that the Witness Protection Bill would have forced PMO to take special security measures for his safety. "Even the letter might not have been leaked," he added. Such cases abound. In March 2013, Ram Kumar, a lawyer and RTI activist from Bihar's Muzaffarnagar district was killed. He had filed a case with the State Vigilance Commission for alleged mismanagement of funds in MGNREGS and was also regularly filing uncomfortable RTI queries to probe corruption in various departments. During a social audit, he had raised objections to the inclusion of 'ghost' names in the muster rolls. In solidarity and to take his endeavour forward, over 165 men and women from his village Ratnauli came to the capital. "It's been almost a year since his death. But there are no arrests. On the contrary, the accused are back in the village and the eyewitnesses are running scared. So we need protection to fight against corruption," said fellow villager and activist Sanjay Sahni of Bihar MNREGA Watch. In Rajasthan's Jodhpur district, Shimbhu Bishnoi was kidnapped and brutally murdered in October 2013. He had been filing RTI queries to expose corruption in MGNREGS job cards. "Even today we are getting threats," said his nephew Banwari Bishnoi. Activists as well as family members of these activists feel that both Whistleblowers Protection Bill and Grievance Redress Bill are extremely critical to empower people to fight corruption and to ensure that people's everyday grievances and complaints are redressed. "The passage of these two bills is essential to complete the anti-corruption and grievance redress framework," Bhardwaj said.