Two days after a clash at the proposed Posco site that left one person dead, the Orissa government on Friday shifted senior IAS officer Priyabrata Patnaik from the post of chairman-cum-managing director of Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO) even as the opposition continued to demand a CBI or a judicial probe into the incident. With just about a year to retire, Patnaik, a 1976 batch officer, has been posted as additional...
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-The Economic Times The extent of control that Lokpal should have over CBI remained a sticky point at the all party meeting here on Wednesday. NDA representatives at the meeting insisted on the investigative independence of the CBI and its complete disassociation from government. The all-party meeting was essentially aimed at hearing out the views of various political parties on the anti-graft body. BJP, Left and BSP insisted that the Bill...
More »No signs that Azad encounter was fake
-The Deccan Chronicle The CBI on Monday filed an interim report in the Supreme Court regarding the alleged encounter killing of Maoist spokesman Cherukuri Raj Kumar alias Azad. The apex court has given time till December 18 to the CBI to file its final report in the case. Sources said scientific evidence and eye-witness accounts back the police version of an exchange of fire which resulted in Azad’s death. CBI joint...
More »A pill to cure all ill? by Nripendra Misra
One hopes that the hotly contested Lokpal Bill will reach its final denouement during the winter session of Parliament. In fact, the debate on corruption in Parliament and media has focused on the single demand for the establishment of an omnipotent institution of the lokpal with its powers of enforcing the citizen’s charter, establishing state-level lokayuktas and encompassing the bureaucracy from a peon to head of the department. It has...
More »Centre veering round to including Group C employees in Lokpal by Smita Gupta
Idea to keep promise made in ‘sense of the House' resolution The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which in recent days indicated that it was not keen on including the lower bureaucracy within the ambit of the Lokpal Bill, as it was billed as an instrument to deal with corruption in high places, is now veering round to the view that the Group C employees could be included in the Bill...
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