Traffic cops in Hyderabad-Secunderabad turn a blind eye to the auto wallahs. The corruption is on such a high that they do not even come to assistance when a citizen calls out for help.

I had to undergo such an incident recently, when I disembarked from my train at Secunderabad Railway Station. Just outside the security metal detectors of the station were standing the Auto walla's who were more than willing to take me on destination of around 6Km. But wait the rates that they told me were to the tune of Rs 200-250, nothing less than Rs.150.

I frantically looked around for a prepaid auto stand, but found none. Finally I found an auto queue which was being maintained by two Traffic cops. Here too, along with these cops there was third line again demanding the same fare When I shouted for the Police, which was standing a meter away from me, the Auto guys started laughing and the traffic cop just acted indifferent.

Finally, when I got an auto through the cop operated line, the meter was just jumping like hell, no proper incremental increase in rates. And mind you this was a digital meter.

This is the condition all over the city, where Traffic pick up vans do not wear seat belts neither do any other police vehicle in the city. Most cops do not wear helmets and the public takes them as an example and does not wear either. Cops even ride triples on a bike. Travel the wrong way, and the list goes on.

This is the story of a lady who lost her everything fighting against odds and goons of society to gain a miserable life. She has great faith in judiciary and that faith only keeping her heart beating somehow... she is holding her last breath away to hear the judge pronounce the judgment. She has been waiting for twenty five years, prisoned into the four brick walls of her house, with a forced power cut, without the water supply, under the constant threat of murder. More than half the house is already captured by goons, who keep attacking her with their desi pistols to finish an untold saga. And this all happening under the nose of Jamshedpur police, who act deaf and mute spectator in this case. And media who claim to be fair and free, could not run a single story on this case even after witnessing everything before their eyes. Some journalists mustered courage to highlight this issue, they were either fired, bought or threatened to be murdered. Some judges gathered courage to hear this case, they were immediately transferred. Situation has come to such a worse end that for last five years this case is on judgment point, but their is no judge available to pronounce the judgment. Mafias are waiting for a proper chance to kill this lady so that they can possess this highly priced mega property which sits in the heart of most posh residential area of Jamshedpur. The price of this property goes in several crores and top beaurocrates, politicians and so called businessmen ( reality mafias) of Jharkhand are keeping their eagle eyes on it.

Lets go back to seventies and eighties of last century, when G.A. Kutto was the chief of security in TATA STEEL (TISCO). In his late days he planned to gift her only child Loraine a big house. TISCO had leased him a big plot in circuit house area as reward of his honest and loyal service to the company. He started building a beautiful house on that plot. He had given the responsibility to supervise the project to his friend's unemployed son Jitendra S Patel, just as a favor to gain him some experience for his future construction projects. Daughter Loraine was happy to receive such a grand gift from her father, hardly aware about the curse coming along with this memento. Loraine was happily married and settled in Mumbai. She was having an aspiring career of film journalist. But destiny had something else stored for her. After the death of her father, she came to Jamshedpur to perform the last right. Before she could even come over the shock of her loss, she came to know that supervisor Jitendra S Patel is trying to occupy her place by showing some alleged documents. She later realised that she has to knock on the door of judiciary to retrieve the wonderful gift of her late father. And that so when she has all the documents of that property and her opponents have nothing except some alleged papers, muscle power and lots of money to buy anybody… anyhow... Court specifically ordered Jitendra S Patel to vacate the house as soon as possible and not to come even closer to it till the final judgment. But Jitendra making mockery of justice continued occupying unfinished portion. he has kept his musclemen there who keep attacking Lorain. In the beginning she had thought that with the help of police she will regain her house soon and then she can go back to live her dream in Mumbai. But that day never came... She lost everything in the process...eventually her husband too...

Loraine is 55 now. She gets hundreds of threatening calls everyday. For last ten years she is literally living a life of house arrest. Police does not listen to her as attackers are top beaurocrates of Jharkhand. Media does not write her story as they will get backfired by their sponsor. And Judiciary our so called strongest pillar of democracy does not have single courageous judge to pronounce the Judgment…What an irony??? And surprisingly all this happening with the daughter of former chief security officer of TATA, making her the most unsecured person in the city of TATAS... This makes me wonder how safe are people in TATANAGAR? And how clean law enforcing agencies are there? Somebody makes fun of judiciary and judicial order and instead of arresting him they help him to do so...Can anybody still claim that Jamshedpur is better off as far as law and order is concerned than other cities of Bihar and Jharkhand?

Loraine is somehow managing to keep that fragile faith in some small corner of her heart that sacrifice she has made will help justice prevail and truth will emerge victorious...I just pray and hope that she won't have to die without relinquishing that faith...all her life she has been waiting for justice...all she wants is to let judge pronounce the judgment...she has been dying everyday to live for that one moment...can we give that to let her die in peace???

I will like to share my experience with corruption or scam don’t know what you say. But if people have some idea please will like your suggestions.
Recently I travelled by Air-India Chicago-Frankfurt-Delhi-Bombay. Air India staff forced some passengers along with me to check in our HAND BAGGAGE, which everyone is allowed to carry one but they didn’t. I checked in my hand bag and when I landed in Bombay that bag was lost. Filed lost report and got my bag after 2 days, but my laptop, camera, cell phone were stolen from bag. Bag was not damaged; they had OPENED LOCK and stole electronics. Lost property report is filed but no response from Air India as if they are very much aware of this. Its big loss for me, and still trying hard to get my money back.
On second thought how secure our AIRPORTS and AIPORT Security is. This happened on 24Nov09, two days before Mumbai attack anniversary when Mumbai Airport was on high alert. Seems security is just joke like feel good factor “All izzz well”. If an employee can smuggle things as big as laptop, camera, camcorder this easily, same way security is porous enough to smuggle anything inside aiport.
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I do not have a story to tell but corruption but corruption is the greatest evil that is killing our country. If you give a tip to someone it is different from the corruption practised in India. An official demands certain amount of money for doing a work he is supposed to do free of charge. The worker is paid to do the work free of charge but still demands extra money to fill his pocket.
Such people are inhuman and wicked. The Media should track them down, now that we have tiny CCTV cameras on Pen, keychain, etc.
They are easy to hide and the media should take some effort to get rid of corruption from our society by exposing the culprits..

Health care industry is recession proof say analysts. I just found out why. Around Dec 5, 2009, I admitted my father at ILS Nursing Home in Salt Lake, Kolkata. Both his kidneys had stopped functioning. The doctors took extremely good care of him and after seven days I took him back home, as they said that only prayers can help him now. The shocker was the medicine bill of nearly Rs 10000 per day. I requested the hospital authorities to allow me to buy the medicines from the retail or wholesale outlets and replace those as the hospital prices were nearly 30% more. They very politely told me that their policy did not allow patients to buy medicines from outside. The point is that nursing homes in and around Kolkata and major cities are minting money on the misery of suffering patients by overcharging on medicines. A friend of mine Dr Prithwis Mukherjee, former executive director of IBM India, wrote in his facebook that someone had been charged for a bottle of Dettol handwash for every day for 30 days by Apollo Gleneagles. My request to CNN IBN is to conduct a survey/investigation to expose such unscrupulous practices. All you have go to do is to check the medicine bills of patients being released from the hospital and compare those prices with that of wholesale/retail and you will find out why and how health care industry takes care of its own health at the cost of others.

I though being a young student have seen a lot of corrupt activities taking place all around me, from very basic level of a ration distributer to the high levels of government officials but had no means to share it....

A great topic. May be for common people like us, is it possible for you to define what is 'Corruption'?

The definition is very important.

For a common man the line between corruption, tip( involuntary),reward etc., is getting blurred.

One common thing irrespective of whichever definition is that there is " Exchange of Money'.

And, ofcourse, a part of your inner soul cries everytime you engage in such acts. Not to mention that, bit by bit, it eats away the very purpose of your existence. More so when people who do not need to be corrupt resort to it driven by greed and envy.