Babus will be babus. No matter which party comes to power, the babus who keep the machinery of the government running end up having it their way, for most part at least. Learning this the hard way are some ministers who, during a state Cabinet meeting the other day, complained to Chief Minister A.
Revanth Reddy, and in no uncertain terms, that some officials in the Chief Minister’s Office in the Secretariat were not taking their calls, or, when they did, were ignoring their requests on pending issues about their constituencies, districts and files without valid reason. Such officials could well be rolling the dice hoping that they are well-insulated. Sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau laid a trap to catch a corrupt vice-chancellor of a state university recently but the VC’s impending retirement on May 21 saved him from getting caught red-handed while accepting bribes.
A contractor approached the ACB with a complaint that the VC had demanded `20 lakh to clear his bills amounting to `20 crore. The ACB laid a trap to catch the VC by asking the contractor to approach VC with `20 lakh cash and they will catch him in the act. The contractor came to know that the VC was going to retire in a day or two and he feared that his cash would be stuck with the ACB though the VC would be caught.
While ACB sleuths were waiting to accompany the contractor to the VC, the contractor backed out all of a sudden and fled from the spot with the cash. The poor ACB sleuths had to return empty-h.
