Sarkari Lok Pal Bill : To jail citizen for 2 years under the bill
Rather than gunning for the corrupt and corruption, governments Lokpal
seems to be gunning for those who complain against corruption. How
will Governments Lokpal work?
Rather than gunning for the corrupt and corruption, governments Lokpal
seems to be gunning for those who complain against corruption. How
will Governments Lokpal work?
Suppose some citizen files a complaint to Lokpal against some corrupt
government servant. Before the investigations actually start, the
government servant can file a cross complaint against the citizen
straight to the special court, without any preliminary enquiry by any
agency, that the complaint is false or frivolous. The government will
provide free advocate to the government servant to file this case. The
citizen will have to defend himself on his own!
Then there is stiffer punishment for the complainant than the corrupt
government servant. If the Special Court concludes that the complaint
is frivolous or false, the citizen faces a minimum of two years of
punishment. But if the corruption charges against government servant
are proved, there is a minimum of six months of punishment for the
corrupt government servant!
Governments Lokpal will have jurisdiction over all NGOs in the country
but it will have jurisdiction over less then 0.5% of all government
employees. Government argued that the Lokpal would get overwhelmed
with too many cases if all public servants were brought under its
ambit. So, government has restricted its jurisdiction only to 65,000
Group A officers. Also, state employees will not be covered by Lokpal.
There are 4 million central government employees and 8 million state
government employees.
In sharp contrast, all NGOs are covered under governments Lokpal,
small or big, whether in state or centre. Even unregistered groups of
people in remote villages are covered under the ambit of Lokpal. So,
in a remote village, if a group of youngsters detect corruption in
panchayat works using RTI, the youngsters can be hauled up by Lokpal
but Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Sarpanch, BDO or their
corruption.
Whereas Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Delhi government
officials, it would have jurisdiction over all RWAs in Delhi. All
small neighborhood groups who raise donations to do Ramlila or Durga
Puja would be under Lokpals scanner. Lokpal could haul up activists
from any of the farmers, labour, anti-corruption, land, tribal or any
other movements. All the movements whether registered or not, are
under the jurisdiction of Lokpal.
There are 4.3 lakh registered NGOs. But there would be several million
unregistered groups across the country. Lokpal would have jurisdiction
over all of them. No one can dispute the fact that corruption in NGOs
needs to be addressed. But how can you leave most public servants out
of Lokpals purview but bring NGOs upto village level within its
purview?
http://indialawyers.wordpress.
seems to be gunning for those who complain against corruption. How
will Governments Lokpal work?
Rather than gunning for the corrupt and corruption, governments Lokpal
seems to be gunning for those who complain against corruption. How
will Governments Lokpal work?
Suppose some citizen files a complaint to Lokpal against some corrupt
government servant. Before the investigations actually start, the
government servant can file a cross complaint against the citizen
straight to the special court, without any preliminary enquiry by any
agency, that the complaint is false or frivolous. The government will
provide free advocate to the government servant to file this case. The
citizen will have to defend himself on his own!
Then there is stiffer punishment for the complainant than the corrupt
government servant. If the Special Court concludes that the complaint
is frivolous or false, the citizen faces a minimum of two years of
punishment. But if the corruption charges against government servant
are proved, there is a minimum of six months of punishment for the
corrupt government servant!
Governments Lokpal will have jurisdiction over all NGOs in the country
but it will have jurisdiction over less then 0.5% of all government
employees. Government argued that the Lokpal would get overwhelmed
with too many cases if all public servants were brought under its
ambit. So, government has restricted its jurisdiction only to 65,000
Group A officers. Also, state employees will not be covered by Lokpal.
There are 4 million central government employees and 8 million state
government employees.
In sharp contrast, all NGOs are covered under governments Lokpal,
small or big, whether in state or centre. Even unregistered groups of
people in remote villages are covered under the ambit of Lokpal. So,
in a remote village, if a group of youngsters detect corruption in
panchayat works using RTI, the youngsters can be hauled up by Lokpal
but Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Sarpanch, BDO or their
corruption.
Whereas Lokpal would not have jurisdiction over Delhi government
officials, it would have jurisdiction over all RWAs in Delhi. All
small neighborhood groups who raise donations to do Ramlila or Durga
Puja would be under Lokpals scanner. Lokpal could haul up activists
from any of the farmers, labour, anti-corruption, land, tribal or any
other movements. All the movements whether registered or not, are
under the jurisdiction of Lokpal.
There are 4.3 lakh registered NGOs. But there would be several million
unregistered groups across the country. Lokpal would have jurisdiction
over all of them. No one can dispute the fact that corruption in NGOs
needs to be addressed. But how can you leave most public servants out
of Lokpals purview but bring NGOs upto village level within its
purview?
http://indialawyers.wordpress.
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