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Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Nov 23: To ensure a corruption-free society and administration, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) here has intensified clamp downs on the corrupt and erring officials exposing underhand deals in the recent months.
The ACU succeeded in trapping several government officials and conduits and arrested corrupt official red-handed for demanding and accepting bribe for execution of government works.
The ACU mechanism to curb corruption in the lower echelons of the bureaucracy has led to arrests of some lower-rung officials like Junior Engineers, Linemans etc on charges of graft in the recent months.
But the let-down of the same reliable mechanism to catch the ‘big fishes’, who have been looting the government coffers without any fear of reprisal, is being questioned by some sections of the society.
“Soon after the administration cleared its stand on corruption and assured a corruption free government to the masses, the ACU intensified crackdowns on corrupt government officials. Several arrests of officials for demanding bribe in the past one year has regained public trust in the ACU. However, the ACU will do a great service to the citizens if it succeeds in unearths corruption from the higher levels of bureaucracy. Corrupt government officials pursue a conduit to execute their misdeeds. As such, possibility of involvement of senior level officials of the different departments of the administration cannot be ruled out. But, the ACU, in its recent crackdowns, managed to arrest only lower-level government officials. It’s understood that arrest of senior officials on charges of corruption will have political influences. But the ACU should be given a free hand for probes and efforts should be made to eliminate corruption from all levels of the government,” opined a senior citizen speaking to Andaman Sheekha.
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