Life can be so unfair.

Top Indian civil servants of the Indian Administrative Service are not happy at all. In MP, IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi are to lose their property and their assets will be attached. They were found to possess Rs 30 million in cash, 25 residential flats, 400 acres of land, shares worth tens of millions and stakes in many businesses. They have been asked to pay Rs 1.35 billion in tax and now will lose their assets. IAS officers in MP are displeased that the couple will lose their loot collected over many years of hard labor. Even worse in Andhra. Principal Secretary ( Home ), BP Acharya is in jail for helping a private company, Emaar cheat the state and Y Sreelakshmi for a mining scam. TOI, February 14. A delegation of IAS officers in Andhra have presented a charter to the Chief Minister demanding 1. Government should pay all legal costs of IAS fellows for defending themselves against charges of corruption 2. They should be questioned by the CBI in their own offices instead of being called to CBI office 3. CBI investigation team should include civil servant members ( read IAS fellows ) because they have " knowledge of business rules and decision-making in government " and 4. Sanction to be obtained from the state government before prosecuting a criminal fellow. Poor fellows just cannot understand why they must be punished for stealing. Their point is that all the offences took place between 2005-8 when YS Rajasekhara Reddy of the Congress was the Chief Minister before he died in a helicopter crash and the Congress is still in power in Andhra so they should be immune. We do not sympathise but we understand their unhappiness. This has all come about because Jaganmohan Reddy, son of YSR, has left Congress and formed his own party, YSR Congress Party. He wanted to become Chief Minister of Andhra when his father died but Congress would not let him. His point was that if The Family can inherit the Prime Minister's crown why can't he inherit the crown of a mere Chief Minister. Unfortunately you do not take on the Capo and hope to survive. The Congress is expert at using state agencies against perceived enemies and has discovered numerous cases of loot against Jaganmohan. However, when you start delving into a cesspit you discover many more cases of filth. Poor IAS fellows strongly object to having to go to jail for incidents of crime discovered fortuitously. They have been so used to sitting in their air conditioned offices while people came bowing with cash, precious metals and presents to get their work done. Now suddenly they are being punished because someone else took on the Capo. So, so unfair. Unfeeling people will snigger but we hope they do it discretely.