“TO SEE A WRONG AND NOT TO EXPOSE IT, IS TO BECOME A SILENT PARTNER TO ITS CONTINUANCE.” - DR. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER

Biologist, Physical anthropologist, and Professor at the  University of Oxford

WHISTLE BLOWING IN ITS MOST GENERAL FORM INVOLVES CALLING (PUBLIC) ATTENTION TO WRONG DOING, TYPICALLY IN ORDER TO AVERT HARM.

A whistleblower is an employee, former employee, or any individual who reports misconduct to people or entities that have the power and presumed willingness to take corrective action.

AREA OF WHISTLE BLOWING

Whistleblowers may make their allegations

• Internally (to other people within the accused organization)

Internal Whistle Blowing

• Externally (to regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups concerned with the issues)

External Whistle Blowing

WHISTLE BLOWERS IN INDIA..

Dr. Ashok Khemka senior INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE officer in the Indian state of HARYANA.

Mr. Robert vadraBusinessman

THE ACTUAL REWARD!!!

DEATH THREATKHEMKA, WHO TOOK ON THE STATE GOVERNMENT OVER SUSPICIOUS LAND DEALS BETWEEN CONGRESS PRESIDENT SONIA GANDHI'S SON-IN-LAW ROBERT VADRA AND REAL ESTATE MAJOR DLF, HAS RECEIVED FRESH DEATH THREATS. A COMPLAINT HAS BEEN LODGED WITH THE PANCHKULA POLICE BY HSDC CHIEF MANAGER K.R. SHARMA. EARLIER ALSO, SOON AFTER HE CAME OUT AGAINST VADRA-DLF LAND DEALS, KHEMKA HAD ALLEGED THAT HE WAS FACING DEATH THREATS FROM ANONYMOUS PEOPLE.

CHARGESHEETS FILED AGAINST ASHOK KHEMKA

Shri Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare

Indian social activist

KISAN BABURAO HAZARE WAS BORN ON 15 JUNE 1937.HE STARTED SELLING FLOWERS AT THE DADAR RAILWAY STATION IN MUMBAI AND EVENTUALLY MANAGED TO OWN TWO FLOWER SHOPS IN THE CITY. HE ALSO BECAME INVOLVED IN VIGILANTISM, JOINING GROUPS WHO ACTED TO PREVENT LANDLORDS' THUGS FROM INTIMIDATING THE POOR OUT OF THEIR SHELTER. HAZARE WAS DRAFTED IN THE INDIAN ARMY  IN APRIL 1960. OFFICIAL RECORDS SHOW THAT HE WAS HONOURABLY DISCHARGED IN 1975 AFTER COMPLETING 12 YEARS OF SERVICE.

The 2012 Indian anti-corruption movement is a series of demonstrations and protests across India intended to establish strong legislation and enforcement against perceived endemic political corruption.

ACHEIVEMENTS• Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra.• Right to Information movement.• Regulation of Transfers and Prevention

of Delay in Discharge of Official Duties Act.

• Campaign against liquor from food grains.

• Lokpal Bill movement.• Electoral reform movement.• Protest against atrocities against Swami

Ramdev and his supporters.

The Actual Reward!!!

•Accusations of corruption.•Accusation of being anti-democratic.•Accusation of being anti-Dalit.•Accusation of being anti-Muslim.•Arrest.•Conspiracy to murder Hazare.

Indian Army General (retd) V K SINGH

He was the first commando to be promoted general and was also the first serving Indian military chief to take the Government to court.Vijay Kumar Singh was born in Bapora village, Bhiwani district, in the Indian state of Haryana.  His father was a Colonel in the Indian Army and grandfather a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Singh was educated at Birla Public School, Pilani, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.

AWARDS• Param Vishisht Seva Medal• Ati Vishisht Seva Medal• Yudh Seva Medal for his distinguished service

during Operation Pawan.• Ranger Tab

HE HAS WRITTEN COURAGE AND CONVICTION: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY  IN 2014, JOINED THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY.

Army Chief General VK Singh disclosed that he was offered 14-crores as a bribe to clear "sub-standard" trucks, a new surge of attention is being paid to the 7000 Tatra trucks that have been bought by the Army since 1986.

TATRA IS A VEHICLE MANUFACTURER IN  CZECH REPUBLIC. TATRA HAD A TRUCK-BUILDING JOINT VENTURE IN INDIA CALLED TATRA VECTRA MOTORS LTD, FORMERLY CALLED TATRA TRUCKS INDIA LTD. IT IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN TATRA AND THE VECTRA GROUP FROM ENGLAND.

Mr. Dinesh S. Thakur  Director & Global Head, Research Information & Portfolio Management at Ranbaxy Laboratories.

While at Ranbaxy, Mr. Thakur discovered that the company was falsifying drug data and violating current good manufacturing practices and good laboratory practices. He resigned in 2005 after reporting the fraud to company management, and worked with authorities for eight years to unravel the complicated trail of falsified records and dangerous manufacturing practices. In May 2013, Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to multiple criminal felonies and agreed to pay $500 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations of falsified drug data and systemic manufacturing violations resulting in substandard and unapproved drugs. The groundbreaking settlement is the largest of its kind against a generic drug manufacturer.

THE ACTUAL REWARD!!!

• Becoming a whistle-blower and taking a story public should be last resort

• After blowing the whistle on fraud:– 90 percent were fired or demoted– 27 percent faced lawsuits– 26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical care– 25 percent suffered alcohol abuse– 17 percent lost their homes– 15 percent got divorced– 10 percent attempted suicide– 8 percent were bankrupted

WHISTLE BLOWING AS A LAST RESORT

• An engineer, Satyendra Dubey, was murdered in November 2003; Dubey had blown the whistle in a corruption case in the National Highways Authority of India’s Golden Quadrilateral project.

• An Indian Oil Corporation officer, Shanmughan Manjunath, was murdered for sealing a petrol pump that was selling adulterated fuel.

• A Karnataka official SP Mahantesh, said to be a whistle-blower in controversial land allotments by societies was murdered in May 2012.

•  A senior police officer alleged that Mayawati's government was corrupt and had embezzled large amounts of money. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital.

SET BACKS TO WHISTLE BLOWING

It was approved by the Cabinet of India as part of a drive to eliminate corruption in the country's bureaucracy and passed by the Lok Sabha on 27 December 2011. The Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on 21 February 2014 and is waiting for President's assent.

WHISTLE BLOWERS PROTECTION BILL

• The Bill seeks to protect whistleblowers, i.e. persons making a public interest disclosure related to an

• act of corruption, misuse of power, or criminal offence by a public servant.

• Any public servant or any other person including a non-governmental organization may make such a

• disclosure to the Central or State Vigilance Commission.

• Every complaint has to include the identity of the complainant.

• The Vigilance Commission shall not disclose the identity of the complainant except to the head of the

• department if he deems it necessary.• The Bill penalises any person who has disclosed the

identity of the complainant.• The Bill prescribes penalties for knowingly making

false complaints.