Law is the answer to corruption

In India, politicians in power are the richest in that category anywhere in the world. The reason is enormous power and discretion they wield without any accountability. Next comes bureaucrats with lots of power in their hands with very less accountability. Combined, they just loot the nation.  Corruption undermines merit, that results in economic under performance of India as a nation. Corruption today is a high profit and low risk activity. This must be reversed.

• In a vibrant society everything is provided for by law and only a few things are left to the discretion of politicians.
• The law should govern the nation where the judiciary, the police and the civil servants dispense justice and services to the citizens in merit order, with no discretion whatsoever. The discretionary powers must be with autonomous institutions never with politicians. The politicians must be confined to making laws and enforcing them properly.
• But in Indian civil society it is 90% politics and 10% law whereas in American civil society it is 90% law and 10% politics.
• Prosperity evolves by the laws of nature, particularly the entrepreneurial character of the people.
• Redundant institutions like President, Vice President, Rajya Sabha, Governors, Legislative councils etc consume the tax-payer's money without giving anything tangible in return. These must be wound up.
• All public institutions must be headed by well qualified, experienced, meritorious professionals in that field, rather than politicians or IAS officers who know nothing about that organisation.
• Justice delayed is justice denied. There is no justification for courts piling up millions of cases and making litigants wait for their life time to get justice. The procedures could be streamlined and expedited to dispose of cases with in six months time.
• Government must be small so that rule of law is implemented by the judiciary, police and the  civil servants.
• Only mass literacy will make the voter cast his vote to the right candidate. Progress is indigenous. It cannot be imported.
• The main reason for India’s pervasive corruption is material greed. Some 20 million Indians have left India to seek monetary gains abroad. These people were intelligent people and were educated at national expense and they serve foreign countries. This much of talent migration would not have occurred had there been matching opportunities in India. This basic moral defect has to be kept under leash only by law. 
• Indian politics, instead of standing on the legal high ground, opted for huge state power. All powerful ministers, MPs, MLAs and IAS officers amass wealth without any let or hindrance. A tall leader is required to put on the pedestal the majesty of law. Then only corruption will disappear from India. India has to take a U-turn from politics to law, from money to moral rectitude. Political change has always been difficult to effect. Only an ethical society can achieve this arduous task. 
• Economic progress must have a firm legal and democratic foundation. The West too is suffering because of the excessive pursuit of wealth and many are predicting even the demise of liberalism. If the West cannot afford immoral affluence, how can India afford it? 
• To seek to pursue growth on a shaky legal foundation is dangerous. Economic growth in the absence of law has created the present corruption levels. India must strengthen its judiciary. Then judiciary, police and the civil servants will put an end to black money.
• In India, the job of a minister is glamorous with power and pomp, whereas a judge, police and civil servant have to do their jobs in relative obscurity. A minister should realize that her or his job is largely decorative and that the job of the judge, police and civil servant is constructive. True politician must be humble. By a political awakening, a legal illumination and honesty in civil service, corruption can be put to an end. 
• Citizens must become alert and create the right atmosphere for a lofty political leadership to emerge. A highly politicised society has to become a highly legalised society. Politics is partisan, law is unitary. Moving from politics to law is evolutionary progress.
• As politics is deep-rooted in the moral character of a society. An MP who is willing to live on bread and water will not need any bribe. His heart and stomach should be filled by patriotism. Also, economics is a zero-sum came. When the rich live in palaces the poor have to live on the streets. A voluntary tendency to lead a simple life by all will create the right atmosphere for economic probity.
• We cannot create a draconian state to end corruption. The moral transformation of civil society must be natural and based on persuasive leadership. Money should become meaningful, moral and deeply satisfying. If true wealth is found in a rich heart, no one will want to touch money even with a barge pole.
• Law is the fulcrum of democracy and democracy is what holds the people together without force. Law and democracy can combine to form the life of politics to cleanse the country of corruption. Cheap politics has done enough damage to India. India needs Newtons and Einsteins in its politics to make it clean, pure and inspiring. Then the best and the brightest will come to politics to make it a haven of virtue and science.

In a democracy, winning election doesn't confer on winner 
autocratic powers to do nonsense things. He must confine to rule of law.
People may or may not have respect for the law; but they must fear the law.

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In India, politicians life style is more vulgar than erst while kings, nizams and zamindars. Even an MLA's monthly expenditure is more than Rs.10 lakhs! Their spending is outright ludicrous. Political parties and their massive election expenditure is a point of concern. Election reforms must change this by providing level playing platform for all contestants with least expenditure. Political contributions from other than individuals must be prohibited, which is the big source of corruption, crony capitalism, nepotism and quid-pro-quo. Even individual donations must be by bank transfer and all donations received and expenditure accounts of political parties are properly maintained and must be audited.

Rule of the law essential for corruption elimination

• American civil society is 90% law and 10% politics. Indian civil society is 90% politics and 10% law. 
• India has chosen this political model that makes politics profitable to politicians. Indian politicians in power are among the richest in the category anywhere in the world. 
• In a dynamic society everything should be provided for by law and only a few things are left to politicians. The law should govern a nation where the judge, the police and the civil servant dispense justice to the citizen.
• Indian politics took enormous power in its hands in order to promote economic growth. But prosperity evolves by the laws of nature. 
• India has no legal vision that is why a million cases are pending in courts. Law and franchise are two sides of the same coin called democracy, one representing truth and the other popular will.  
• A government must be small. Then only rule of law can be implemented by the judiciary, the police and civil service.
• India is yet to write any document to keep the greedy politicians in check.
• Mass literacy will make the voter cast his vote to the right candidate. 
• Progress is indigenous; it cannot be imported from abroad.
• The main reason for India’s pervasive corruption is material greed. Some 15 million Indians have left India to seek monetary gains abroad. This basic moral defect can be kept under leash only by law. 
• Indian politics, instead of standing on the legal high ground, opted for huge state power. All-powerful ministers, MPs, MLAs and IAS officers amass wealth without any let or hindrance. Can India take a U-turn from politics to law, from money to moral rectitude? 
• Political change has always been difficult to effect. The true dimensions of the task of creating an ethical society must be borne in mind.
• Economic progress must have a firm legal and democratic foundation. The West too is suffering because of the excessive pursuit of wealth. The West ignored its policies and many are predicting even the demise of liberalism. If the West cannot afford immoral affluence, how can India afford it? 
• To seek to pursue growth on a shaky legal foundation is dangerous. The Indian polity is morally weak without any legal restraint. Economic growth in the absence of law has created the present corruption levels. 
• India must strengthen its judiciary. Then, without any fuss and public outcry corruption can be eliminated. The same judiciary and police will put an end to black money.
• The job of a minister is glamorous with power and pomp, whereas a judge and a police officer have to do their jobs in relative obscurity. A minister's job is largely decorative and that the job of the judge is constructive. Realising his true contribution, the politician must be humble. By a political awakening and a legal illumination corruption can be put to an end. 
• Citizens must become alert and create the right atmosphere for a lofty political leadership to emerge. A highly politicised society has to become a highly legalised society. Politics is partisan, law is unitary. Moving from politics to law is evolutionary progress.
• Politics is deep-rooted in the moral character of a society. Any politician who is willing to live on bread and water will not need any bribe. Economics is a zero-sum came. When the rich live in palaces the poor have to live on the streets. A voluntary tendency to lead a simple life by all will create the right atmosphere for economic probity.
• We cannot create a draconian state and end corruption. The moral transformation of civil society must be natural and based on persuasive leadership. A clear definition of a sustainable lifestyle must be voluntarily accepted. Only then the competitive urge to make more and more money will end. Money should become meaningful, moral and deeply satisfying. If true wealth is found in a rich heart, no one will want to touch money even with a barge pole.
• Law is the fulcrum of democracy and democracy is what holds the people together without force. Law and democracy can combine to form the life of politics to cleanse the country of corruption. Cheap politics has done enough damage to India. India needs Newtons and Einsteins in its politics to make it clean, pure and inspiring. Then the best and the brightest will come to politics to make it a haven of virtue and science.

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Two things form the bedrock of any open society.

Freedom of expression and rule of law ...  Salman Rushdie

If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, 

they can be said to live under the rule of men corrupted by the law ... Dale Carpenter

Corruption arises out of discretionary powers vested upon politicians, civil servants and judiciary, without any accountability, which are being misused for amassing ill-gotten wealth. These must be replaced with robust merit based algorithms. Transparency & accountability must be established at all levels. All government expenditure must have prior legislative sanction. Executive sanctioning of schemes, expenditure or anything must be prohibited. Every process of law administration must have legislative approval prior to implementation. Citizen rights must be respected under all circumstances by every one. Courts must deliver judgments within six months. VIP culture must be abandoned. These are few things which must be adopted immediately and refined continuously for establishing a happy society.

Drug menace in Malaysian Township, Hyderabad

Police caught red handed two young girls and three boys while they were having ganja at Malaysia Township under the limits of KPHB Police Station, here on July 21, 2017 at 4pm. On a tiff off, the KPHB police raided a flat in the Malaysia Township and detained Ektha Negi, a software employee, along with Gopi Sadhana, a fashion designer. The police also detained Muvva Nithin, Devaraju Uday, Marupalli Abhilash on the information given by the young girls in the same Township. Police seized 60 gram ganja from them. The police said the detainee told them that they purchased ganja from an unidentified person at Tolichowki.

Here are some facts:

• I live in the flat just above the flat that was raided by police and girls were caught with Ganja on July 21, 2017. 
• The flat is rented by three unmarried techie girls since over 2.5 years ago. Some girl vacating the flat and some other girl joining the flat was inconspicuous. Among present occupants two are north Indian and third one local. I never heard of any nuisance created by them. Some boys visiting their flat regularly was common but any kind of nuisance by them was never discussed.
• I have never felt the smell of their Ganja smoking. However the gentleman in front of their flat tells that he & his wife felt unusual smell few times when they cross crossed each other in corridor ans their door was open.
• The Residents Association has never warned the landlord or the tenants about their alleged illegal activity of Ganja smoking. Prior to approaching police they should have demanded vacating the flat by the occupants suspected of Ganja smoking, which was not done in this case. The tenants were not given any kind of benefit of doubt nor any eyewitness to illegal activity thus giving rise to doubts of framing them by Association for reasons best known to them.
• While there are over 10 other flats with suspected ganja smoking activity in the township, why this flat occupied 3 girl techies was targeted for police raid is not known.
• Publicizing their names and photos and parading them in front of media like criminals, even before crime is established and against their will, not only destroys their reputation but also they could lose their jobs and their marriage proposals will get destroyed.

My View:
Drugs unheard in Hyderabad five years ago, is omnipresent today. Even though laws world wide are stringent, drug menace is ever increasing and threatening youth in particular. Such is its power and temptation of disproportionate profits. In India, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985( NDPS Act) prohibits a person to produce, manufacture, cultivate, possess, sell, purchase, transport, store, and/or consume any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance. Drug peddlers have liability of 10-20 years of RI, drug consumers a liability of RI up to 1 year. Addicts volunteering for treatment enjoy immunity from prosecution. In this case, even before asserting whether the girls are peddlers or consumers and their willingness for deaddiction, police parading them in front of media, destroying their image, jobs, marriage prospects is unfair.

Nayeemuddin encountered on Aug 8, 2016

• Nayeemuddin is wanted in more than 100 cases of which more than 20 are murder cases. 
• He was a former member of the People’s War Group and was reportedly involved in 20 murder cases. He surrendered years ago and later formed his own gang.
• Among the many cases is the murder of IPS officer K.S. Vyas in 1993. 
• He was also the main accused in the murder of gangster Patola Goverdhan Reddy in 2011.
• He was linked to the murder of surrendered ex-naxalite K Samabasivudu and Konapuri Ramulu.
• In May 1999, Nayeem's gang killed balladeer Belli Lalitha at Bhongir, chopped her body into 17 pieces and threw them in front of her sympathisers houses to send a stern warning to their enemies.
• He had reportedly helped the police to nab Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife who were later killed in an alleged "encounter" by Gujarat Police in 2005.
• Nayeemuddin, son of a driver who worked in the electricity department, was involved in settling land issues, blackmail. There are rumours that he acted as a hitman as well.
• He had escaped police custody as many as 11 times and was adept at staying away from public and the law. Only once was he spotted attending the wedding of a close relative.
• Not surprisingly, the police did not try too hard to nab this elusive gangster as they feared that he would expose them. However, of late, he was getting out of hand and so, the cops, with the help of Greyhounds, the elite group trained to fight against Maoists on any given terrain, took him down. He was at his friend Basha's house in the Millenium Township at Shadnagar in Mahbubnagar, around 50 km from the city of Hyderabad when he was murdered in exchange fire.
• Police officials had evacuated the millennium township, Shadnagr late Sunday night before conducting the operation. Three people—Nayeemuddin, his bodyguard and a woman—was killed in the encounter on Aug 8, 2016. 
• According to police sources, Nayeem had become a headache for ruling party legislators. Bhongir MLA P Sekhar Reddy was even given a bullet proof vehicle due to imminent threat from Nayeem and it came to light that several MLAs, businessmen and a few ministers had complained to the chief minister about the menace. "Nayeem has been threatening several legislators and key associates of some ministers. He even started blackmailing some ministers recently," a senior police officer said. Police provided bullet proof cars to the two MLAs.
• Though, for the record, it was an extortion complaint lodged by an elected representative's husband that sounded the death knell for the 45-year-old gangster from Nalgonda, the real reason appears to be his threats to several TRS leaders, including some ministers, which forced police to go after Nayeem, who had been leading a lavish life at his four-storied residential building at Alkapuri Colony in Narsingi.
• Till 2007, Nayeem moved freely and even attended many functions, but subsequently went underground and continued his illegal activities, mainly extortions from businessmen and politicians.
• Police seized 600 original land documents from one of the houses of gangster Nayeemuddin. The land documents belong to several people from whom Nayeemuddin allegedly grabbed land through threats, intimidation and coercion.
• The 45-year-old Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem, who earned assets worth more than Rs.10,000 crores, illegally, had a final desire to continue his lavish lifestyle after fleeing to Dubai along with his family members. He also requested some police officials to help him to get a passport after plastic surgery to his face. Police have also found business cards of famous plastic surgeons at Nayeem’s residence during the searches held recently.
• Nayeem wanted to get a passport by creating fake ID proofs. For this purpose, he also purchased a house under a fake name. Based on the fake name, Nayeem obtained a sale deed of house, electricity connection, voter ID for getting passport.
• The value of property documents seized from various residences and hide-outs of renegade Mohammed Nayeemuddin running in to thousands of crores and the recovery of a personal diary listing out payments to politicians and policemen.
• The 67-acre land in Kondapur,recovered from his home, alone is valued at about Rs 1,675 crore in open market.
• Rs.3.18 crore in cash, 1.9 kg gold ornaments, four weapons and 138 bullets were recovered from Nayeem’s residence.
• Nayeemuddin's mother Tahera Begum alleged that police had taken her son alongwith three other family members two days ago and now his bullets-ridden body was returned to them.
• Dropping enough hints that the police were watching Mohammed Nayeemuddin alias Nayeem for quite some time, Cyberabad police raided his city dens at Alkapuri Colony in Puppalaguda of Narsingi and Tulja Bhavani Colony in Injapur, Vanasthalipuram, on Monday morning, barely hours after his death in Shadnagar of Mahbubnagar district.
• Police believe that Nayeem had been selling the tribal girls to human trafficking gangs in Mumbai and the Gulf countries for mind-boggling amounts. Cops also suspect that Nayeem might have been sending the minor girls to rich people visiting the city and certain powerful locals. Police gave custody of the nine girls, rescued from the Shadnagar den of Nayeem, to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Mahbubnagar.
• Among the four girls found at Nayeem's house at Alkapuri Colony of Puppalguda in the city , a 17-year-old girl told Narsingi police that she was brought to Nayeem's bungalow against her wish. Based on her statement, the Narsingi police have added a kidnapping charge to the case registered at the police station.
• However, preliminary HIV tests threw up a negative result.
• Police on going search on his assets and liabilities comes into lime light that Nayeemuddin was actually going to open a TV channel where he had appointed an CEO and recruitments for the positions were going on.
• One of the important recoveries made by the police during the searches was a purported autobiography penned by Nayeem, in which he talks about his desire to become an MLA and a ruler of Bhongir.

My View:

There is no question that Nayeemuddin is undesirable and harmful element in the society. He is a rogue but unfortunately he was propped by Police and Politicians for their selfish activities and when he expanded his operations encompassing these people, his killing was ordered. Most famous people in the city had slept with him in the past. Their details will never get revealed except some leaks to embarrass some anti establishment people. Unfortunately several good civilian families suffered his atrocities and some even lost their lives.

Knowing fully well about his activities neither politicians nor police never thought fit to take action on him rather used him for fulfilling their needs. Only when Nayeem threatened Etela Rajinder, KTR and some TRS MLAs from Nalgonda district, KCR ordered liquidation of Nayeem. 

Now the allegation made by Nayeem's mother that Nayeem was picked up by police few days ago and after killing his body was kept at Shadnagar with coloring of fake encounter has its own merits. First in an encounter Nayeem an experienced shooter simply died without killing or even hurting any policemen? Second when police started evacuating millennium township previous night how come Nayeem hasn't made any escape attempt but simply got killed next day morning. Third no one saw anything there except heard some shootout from very long distance. Fourth within minutes of Nayeem's encounter Police raided several of his dens and aids homes simultaneously and finally Fifth I don't think Nayeem will stay for several hours with his friend knowing fully well that since several months his life is at risk. Also why he visited his friend was not revealed so far.