Cancer and Corruption?
THEY say 'corruption' is like cancer but it seems a lady Central Excise Superintendent in Mumbai who was arrested by CBI recently took to corruption because she was suffering from Cancer and perhaps the bills for treatment started piling up. DNA reports that all along she had been a rather upright officer and took to corruption only recently. That is why the CBI team which raided her house found nothing while her more enterprising colleagues were found with tons of money. It seems she started accepting bribes only recently. Such late entrants are the most prone to get caught!
But CBI did catch up with a more experienced colleague of hers. Also arrested with her was another Superintendent, but when his house was raided by the CBI, they found NOTHING. It seems somebody in the office had alerted his family of the raid and they quickly shifted the cash and other valuables and for four days the CBI had to go on a wild goose chase with no success.
But after four days of interrogation, the Superintendent voluntarily without any threat or inducement [read pure unadulterated third degree] confessed to the CBI that the money was hidden in a garment shop from where the CBI recovered cash and documents worth over One Crore Rupees.
The CBI is sure to trace the officer who alerted the Superintendent's family and charge him as an abettor after obtaining a 'willingly given' confessional statement. (which is not even evidence in a court)
A Deputy Commissioner caught with a bribe of Rs 5000/- is in jail not able to get bail for the last ten days!
Next time you take a bribe, please stop for a moment and consider the risk and question whether it is worth the risk – once you are caught, you have to be in jail in the company of criminals and your family has to bear the agony and consequences with you. And your life is miserable for at least ten years!
And the CBI will treat you far worse than the way you treat the persons summoned by you and who give you free and willing statements!