How to tackle crime by officials.

Seems that between 1990 and 2010 around Rs 200 million were stolen from a fund to provide night shelters for the homeless in Delhi. There is a department called the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board which is supposed to build shelters for the homeless. So far it has 150 shelters providing refuge to 7500 people while there are 300,000 homeless people in Delhi. An audit in 2010 found wrong entries in cash books, missing entries and misappropriation of funds. Apparently transactions were shown in cash books and account statements were prepared on that basis but bank statements were not accounted for. ET, 7 January. Assistant Director, Purushottam Kumar, who rose through the ranks to his post, has been blamed. Ironically Purushottam means an excellent man. Excellent in cooking cash books probably. When the crime was first discovered the Anti Crime Branch of the Delhi government took over the investigation and then tried to make it go away by doing nothing, the preferred means of tackling crime by politicians and civil servants in India. Now the Central Vigilance Commission has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to investigate. The CVC wants guilty officials to be sacked. Shocking demand. We have to remember that Rs 200 billion have to be accounted for from the Commonwealth Games fiasco in 2009 but the Shunglu Committee report seems to have disappeared. Meanwhile in neighboring Haryana the Consolidation Act has been used by the land mafia to usurp large tracts of land. The Consolidation Act is to help farmers to consolidate small parcels of land into a larger whole. Apparently this act was used by a " powerful business-politico-bureaucrat-police nexus with ostensibly no interest in agricultural, cultivation activities " to grab large tracts of land said Mr Ashok Khemka, the then Director General of Land Consolidation and Land Records cum Inspector General of Registration. " The aims and objects of the Consolidation Act are to consolidate agricultural holdings for the betterment of agriculture, for prevention of fragmentation of agricultural holdings and for reservation of land for common purposes of the village," wrote Mr Khemka. He also blocked land purchases by Mr Robert Vadra, son in law of Ms Sonia Gandhi. He was promptly transferred out to Haryana Seeds Development Corporation. In fact Mr Khemka has been transferred 16 times in 7 years probably due to his penchant for finding crimes wherever he goes. He has also received fresh death threats. Needless to say, both Delhi and Haryana have Congress governments. So the 3 methods used to avoid punishment are 1. Take over the investigation and try to kill it. 2. Hold an inquiry and then hide the report and 3. Transfer the honest officer and deny everything. Lessons on how to tackle crime by officials and politicians in India.