Officials, facing probe after being named in the illegal mining report, say
if Karnataka Lokayukta's wife surrendering her plot is absolution enough,
then they returning the bribes they took should absolve them of their crime
Groucho Marx had hit the nail on the head: "These are my principles. If you
don't like them, I have others." The Indian moralistic system works on the
principle "Keep amassing till you are caught. Till then you are innocent."
No wonder the Karnataka Lokayukta, Justice Shivaraj V Patil, mired in a
land mess, had some leading state politicians backing him up. While both law
minister Suresh Kumar and BJP state president K S Eshwarappa said, "Now that
he has returned his wife's site, the controversy should end," state Congress
chief G Parameshwar was heard saying, "a hundred such societies would have
flouted such rules."
Even Justice Patil has taken refuge under excuses - apart from the untenable
"I was not aware of the rule" - that he has returned the plot allotted to
his wife, and "Eighty-four judges have been given sites in the housing
colony for judicial employees."
The Lokayukta sounded just like B S Yeddyurappa. When accused of
illegally allotting prime land to his family members, the former chief
minister had said he had asked his kin to return the sites. In his defence,
he had also said, "Most chief ministers before me have done the same thing."
Against the backdrop of this novel method of washing away one's
impropriety, Bangalore Mirror asked many of the scam-tainted bureaucrats and
politicians whether they too would like to opt for the 'absolution formula'.
All said given the option, they would. The politicians, in fact, were bold
enough to come on record, but the babus chose to be anonymous.
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