Four years back a govt engineer, Satyendra Dubey was murdered for exposing corruption in the national highway construction programme. Then two years ago the bullet riddled body of Shanmughan Manjunath, who was a manager of a state owned oil company, was found in the back seat of his car. His crime was that he exposed how petrol was being adulterated. Sadly a few persons of principle still persist. A Karnataka bureaucrat, M.N.Vijayakumar has been chastising his colleagues for taking bribes, stealing and other acts of corruption which come so naturally to our civil servants. He has been transferred seven times in the last nine months which apparently is a warning to stop. His wife J.N.Jayashree, alarmed at the danger to her husband, has started a website called fightcorruption.wikidot.com. By informing the entire world of the criminals in our civil service she hopes to ' create a fortress of people ' around him so that the villains do not dare to touch him. Brave lady. Transparency International ranks India at 68th in its index of corruption below Bulgaria and Columbia. Only people of vile intent enter politics and the civil service and will do anything for money. After all policemen in Mumbai allowed terrorists to carry explosives into the city for money. For money police will prolong any investigation, destroy evidence while criminals threaten potential witnesses into retracting their testimonies. This makes these people feel omnipotent and able to carry out murders without the slightest anxiety. All we can do is pray.