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In a belated but fresh move, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Wednesday launching an anti-graft drive asked various department heads to recall 578 employees trapped taking bribes since January 2006 from field positions to their parent department headquarters (Patna) and start departmental proceedings against them to terminate them.
The CM, who held video-conferencing with DMs of 38 districts and 40 SPs, asked them to ensure tainted employees who had been sent to jail must not be given field postings or sent to other departments on deputation. Bihar Chief Secretary Ashok Sinha said: “The fresh drive is part of the government’s running zero tolerance against corruption. DMs and SPs were told by Chief Minister to prepare an exhaustive list of tainted employees and ensure departmental proceedings against them”. So far, 880 corruption cases including 100 disproportionate assets cases against government employees — from constables to civil surgeons to superintendent engineers — have been lodged since Kumar came to power on October 24, 2005. Police filed charge-sheet in 856 cases.
Overall, 658 people have been arrested for taking bribe. The state government has dismissed 42 policemen facing graft charges.
The chief secretary said the Chief Minister’s clear brief was to take all trap cases to their logical conclusion so that it could send a strong message.
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