Member of the Legislative Assembly in UP, Shekhar Tiwari has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a government engineer, Manoj Kumar Gupta on December 23, 2008. Tiwari's main business was extortion and he wanted Gupta to pay for celebrating the Chief Minister's birthday which Gupta refused. Enraged, Tiwari planned to implicate Gupta in a false case of sexual assault with the help of the local police officer, Hoshiyar Singh. However, on the night of December 23 Tiwari got drunk and determined to teach Gupta a lesson. Next morning Gupta was found dead. All witnesses were threatened into silence except another engineer called Rai who has been suspended on charges of buying Rs 10000 worth of unauthorised equipment. Rai has since retired and is not being paid any pension. He has not been seen for 18 months, most probably because he is in hiding to save his own life. This case is a clear illustration that the entire Indian establishment is criminal. Tiwari had 14 cases registered against him but 10 of these cases could not be proven because the police cooperated with him and witnesses were silenced. He was chosen by the BSP to be a candidate for election, not by mistake, but with full knowledge precisely because he had the goons to silence opposition and could collect funds through extortion. After murdering Gupta he was able to frighten every witness except Rai who was then suspended by his own department on some unproven charge. He should have been hanged because he can continue his crimes from jail and may be freed on parole by his party. Politicians, police, civil servants, all criminals. This is India.