Whistleblowing is a deadly affair
After Satyendra Dubey, it is now the turn of S Manjunath - both IIT/IIM graduates, both decided the favour the decrepit public sector in India.
Both exposed corruption during their work for which both have paid dearly with their lives.
Dubey exposed a huge swindle in the expensive national highway project, and he was killed in Bihar. Manjunath refused to take bribe give consent to the adulteration of petrol at an IOC booth of which he was an employee.
These are the new martyrs of independent India - an India where governance is free from foreign control, but where the people are still slaves to a corrupt bureaucracy.
Corruption is an accepted facet of life for most Indians - be it bribing the police, the council head, the hospital nurse or the school clerk.
But whistleblowing is an honorable technique against corruption - by exposing the malpractices in one’s marketplace.
Only some months back, I think it was after Satyendra Dubey’s murder, that the Indian Govt. enacted a law protecting whistleblowers and giving them unprecedented rights.
Dubey was honoured posthumously and the Indian Press rattled with his news for a few weeks after his unjust murder.
Dubey’s news is still warm in our minds now and Manjunath’s has come up. Corruption is a deadly force, but to safeguard corruption is extremely cheap.
And since when did guns become the weapon of choice for murder in India? This is a frightening news - that guns have become fashionable!
If the Govt. has the guts to put forth such path-breaking laws, then it should also have the integrity to enforce and maintain them. How will I expose the misdeeds of my boss if my whistleblowing act is protected, but not my life?
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