Those who are entrusted with a particular duty, assigned a job as sensitive as to contain and check corruption, most of them are themselves tainted and involved in corruption cases. While that could perhaps be a reality only in Jammu and Kashmir, it cannot be left to any imagination as to their role in preventing and arresting corruption and would confirm to the proverbial carrying coals to new castle. How come several Chief Vigilance Officers/Departmental Vigilance Officers etc afford to be holding such assignments and positions when they themselves were involved in Anti Corruption Bureau cases. While placing them at these posts, perhaps, no pruning and filtration exercise is undertaken or even the wheat having been not separated from the chaff. In other words, antecedents of these officers prior to their appointment appear to have been not verified and scrutinized.
It is just not hard to believe but stunning too, as these officials would be employing all their energies at the expense of their assigned role, for getting “cleared” and declared “not accused”. So, let us reiterate this inference derived from such instances that the Government was least interested in fighting the menace of corruption that has permeated deep into the system like malignant cells in Jammu and Kashmir.
In other words, guidelines of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) are put in deep freezer while appointing Chief Vigilance Officers and Departmental Vigilance Officers by various Government departments. These people required to function in close coordination with the Anti Corruption Bureau and to take on those Government officials as per set procedures who were suspected of having indulged in acts of omissions and commissions , can hardly do anything concrete as they themselves have ceased the moral and legal authority to hold the sensitive assignments the day information about their involvement in ACB cases surfaced.
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