YP Singh, IPS, former police officer on How to Stop Abuse of Power by Bureaucrats


At a meeting organized by the Jana Gana Mana group on 30th May 2009 at Indian Merchants’ Chamber (IMC) , former IPS officer YP Singh addressed a gathering on How to Stop Abuse of Power by Bureaucrats. He spoke of how a corrupt income-tax official may cause losses of thousands of crore rupees to the public, and prove more harmful than organized criminals and gangsters. Krishnaraj Rao, Gaurang Vora, Mohammed Afzal, Sunil Ahya, Vijay Chauhan, Dr Srikant Prabhu, Ravi Kiran Haldipur, Sanjay Ghatalia and KN Singh also spoke briefly about how they were arrested on 19th May based on false charges of rioting and assault framed by Dr Suresh Joshi, Chief State Information Commissioner (CSIC) of Maharashtra. Activists all over India are up in arms against SICs and CICs for sabotaging the implementation of Right to Information under RTI Act 2005.