In March 2013, Dr HPS Mythri got a high rank in the recruitment exam for the Karnataka Administrative Service. She was confident of a top job until she went for her personality test. Dr Mythri said, "I got a call from the KPSC member saying I'm the topper in the ST category and I should go and meet the member for a negotiation. Since I'm from the ST category and a woman, the price is concessional or else it would have been between Rs 1 and Rs 1.5 crore." Karnataka Administrative Service aspirant Dr HPS Mythri joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.
Q. Are govt officers are forced to be corrupt? Is it a vicious cycle? Asked by: leena
A. Yes that's right .....when the candidate buys the job paying huge money, he /she will try to recover the same once they are government officers and they are made corrupt at the entry level itself ...they will lose the morality and ethics. Yes, this is a vicious cycle of corruption. Giving bribe and recovering it back....
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06:28 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Bangalore: A crore or more for a government job - that's the going rate in Karnataka. In March 2013, Dr HPS Mythri got a high rank in the recruitment exam for the Karnataka Administrative Service. She was confident of a top job until she went for her personality test. Dr Mythri said, "I got a call from the KPSC member saying I'm the topper in ST category and I should...
07:36 AM, Jun 12, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday quizzed former Railway Minister PK Bansal for over six hours in connection with bribery scandal involving his nephew Vijay Singla and Railway Board member Mahesh Kumar. The sources said Bansal was called at 11.00 am to CBI guest house, located five kilometers from the agency's headquarters, to avoid the media which gathered outside its headquarters. They said he was grilled till 6.45 in the...
08:38 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal reportedly told the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday that he had "lost touch" with his nephew Vijay Singla, an accused in the Railway bribery scandal. CNN-IBN got exclusive details of what Bansal told the CBI on Tuesday during his almost 6 hour-long interrogation. Bansal told the CBI that he had not been in touch with his nephew for some time and...
06:12 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Sources in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said that former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal was being examined about his role in various postings and appointments apart from that of suspended Railway Board official Mahesh Kumar. The sources said the questioning was going on at an undisclosed location and that Bansal was being questioned as a witness. The sources, however, added that this may change...
05:10 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has summoned former railways minister Pawan Bansal for questioning on Tuesday into the Railway bribery scam. Sources say Pawan Bansal must have been aware of favours given by his nephew Vijay Singla. Sources say the Railway board member-level postings can be cleared only by the Railways Minister. CBI sources also said the interrogation of Railway GM Mahesh Kumar revealed that Bansal and one...
08:43 AM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Former Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will be summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning in the Railways bribery case, probe agency sources told CNN-IBN on Monday. Sources further revealed that Bansal, who resigned following the scandal, will be questioned on in-house postings in the Railway Board, which are cleared only by the Railways Minister. Bansal had to resign as Union Railways Minister after his nephew...
06:13 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Arrested CBI SP Vivek Dutt, a key member of the coalgate scam probe, and three others were on Monday remanded to judicial custody till June 7 by a Delhi court in connection with a corruption case lodged against them. The four arrested accused -- Dutt, CBI inspector Rajesh Chandra Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh Chand Gupta -- were produced before the court after expiry of...
03:44 PM, May 27, 2013
Sarajevo: The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation was freed from jail on Friday after the Constitutional Court ordered his release following his arrest last month on corruption charges. President Zivko Budimir was arrested along with 19 other officials in late April 2013 in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. A court ordered Budimir and his four co-accused aides to be kept...
07:02 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: CBI has not been able to make any substantial recovery of cash or valuables from the office and residence of its Superintendent of Police Vivek Dutt, who was probing the high-profile coal block allocation scam when he was arrested under graft charges, sources claimed. The agency has deputed Vidhi Kumar Birdi, a 2003 batch IPS officer from Jammu and Kashmir cadre, to replace Dutt in the coal block...
09:42 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday extended by five more days the CBI custody of SP Vivek Dutt, a key member of the coal allocation scam probe, and three others arrested for their alleged roles in a graft case. Special CBI judge GP Singh allowed the central probe agency's plea seeking extension of their custody by five days, saying that the case has "wide ramifications". "The case has wide...
12:58 PM, May 22, 2013
Bangalore: A passport scam has now surfaced in Karnataka. The state Lokayukta has indicted six senior government officers of taking bribes in return for issuing verification on passports. Over 1,000 such verifications were issued over a period of five months. The state anti-corruption unit in its report alleges that the senior officers, including a DGP-rank police officer and a retired IAS officer took bribes up to Rs 16,000 to verify...
10:01 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted CBI one more day's custody of its arrested SP Vivek Dutt, who was a key member of the Coalgate scam probe, and three others in connection with a corruption case lodged against them. The court extended the CBI custody by a day and pulled up the Investigating Officer (IO) for not producing the accused before it within time. Special CBI Judge GP...
07:28 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: CBI will tell the Supreme Court on Tuesday about the arrest of its Superintendent of Police Vivek Dutt who was the Chief Investigator of the coalgate scam. The apex court had in its last hearing on coalgate scam said no officer will be taken off of the case without informing the bench hearing the scam case. Dutt was arrested by CBI sleuths along with an Inspector Rajesh for...
07:58 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday allowed CBI to interrogate for two days Sushil Daga, one of the accused in the Rs 10-crore railway bribery case in which the then Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew is among those arrested. Daga, who was arrested on Sunday, was produced before the court and the agency sought his remand, saying it needs to confront him with documents and intercepted conversations of...
05:39 PM, May 20, 2013
Chandigarh: A group of BJP activists on Monday held a demonstration outside the Central Bureau of Investigation office in Chandigarh protesting against alleged involvement of CBI DIG Mahesh Agarwal in deliberately delaying the raid at Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla's residence. Balbir Singh, a CBI inspector had filed a complaint in the Central Administrative Tribunal that the CBI DIG delayed the raid at Singla's residence, giving him time to...
12:53 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file a petition in the Supreme Court on Monday against the investigating officer in the coal allocation scam, who was caught taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh on Friday. The CBI Internal Intelligence Unit nabbed Vivek Dutt in an operation that was personally supervised by the agency's director Ranjit Sinha. However, CBI sources said the bribe was not...
10:56 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday sent Vivek Dutt, a CBI officer heading the probe into the allocation of coal blocks, to the custody of the probe agency till May 21 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a businessman for settling a land dispute. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge VK Gupta sent Dutt, inspector Rajesh Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh...
04:41 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Senior CBI officer Vivek Dutt, who headed the Coalgate scam probe team, and three others were on Saturday sent to three days in the agency's custody by a Delhi court for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 15 lakh from a businessman to favour him in a land dispute case. Superintendent Dutt, CBI inspector Rajesh Chandra Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman Dinesh Chand Gupta were produced...
06:25 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed the bail plea of an accused in the Rs 10 crore railway bribery case in which ex-Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal's nephew was among those arrested. Special CBI Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma rejected the bail plea of Dharmender Kumar after CBI contended that his release could adversely affect probe which was in initial stages. Dharmedra along with co-accused Vivek Kumar had allegedly...
06:10 PM, May 18, 2013
