TAINTED BABUS ALSO DEMAND SWALPA ADJUST MAADI FORMULA

Officials, facing probe after being named in the illegal mining report, say 
if Karnataka Lokayukta's wife surrendering her plot is absolution enough, 
then they returning the bribes they took should absolve them of their crime

Groucho Marx had hit the nail on the head: "These are my principles. If you 
don't like them, I have others." The Indian moralistic system works on the 
principle "Keep amassing till you are caught. Till then you are innocent."

No wonder the Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Shivaraj V Patil, mired in a 
land mess, had some leading state politicians backing him up. While both law 
minister Suresh Kumar and BJP state president K S Eshwarappa said, "Now that 
he has returned his wife's site, the controversy should end," state Congress 
chief G Parameshwar was heard saying, "a hundred such societies would have 
flouted such rules."

Even Justice Patil has taken refuge under excuses - apart from the untenable 
"I was not aware of the rule" - that he has returned the plot allotted to 
his wife, and "Eighty-four judges have been given sites in the housing 
colony for judicial employees."

The Lokayukta sounded just like B S Yeddyurappa. When accused of 
illegally allotting prime land to his family members, the former chief 
minister had said he had asked his kin to return the sites. In his defence, 
he had also said, "Most chief ministers before me have done the same thing."

Against the backdrop of this novel method of washing away one's 
impropriety, Bangalore Mirror asked many of the scam-tainted bureaucrats and 
politicians whether they too would like to opt for the 'absolution formula'. 
All said given the option, they would. The politicians, in fact, were bold 
enough to come on record, but the babus chose to be anonymous.

Read full report at:
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/1/20110919201109190351147932b895632/Tainted-babus-also-demand-swalpa-adjust-maadi-formula.html

Or at:
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=MIRRORNEW&BaseHref=BGMIR%2F2011%2F09%2F19&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=1&EntityId=Ar00100&AppName=1&FontSize=g1

__._,_.___