A government officer in Karnataka has been severely punished by miscreants for performing his duties with all honesty. The miscreants have cut off the hands of an officer for not signing their bills. So far government has not responded to this
Shrinivas, a technical consultant engineer working for the NREGA scheme, has lost his hands for performing his duties. He was deputed to Kunigal Taluk in Tumkur district. The local people say that he’s a strict officer. He found some illegalities in the NREGA scheme, and had to consequently he paid a heavy price for that because he refused to take part in corrupt dealings.
“To verify the works under NREGA scheme is a part of my duties. I found illegalities in the NREGA work. While returning home from office two miscreants, Keshav and Manjunath, attacked me,” says Srinivas.
Verifying the works under employment guarantee scheme and giving a report to the PDO was a part of his duty. He found some irregularities in bills presented by some contractors, withheld the grants and did not sign to their bills. On Monday evening, Srinivas was returning to Magadi town from Kunigal. At that time the miscreants, Keshav and Manjunath, stopped him on his way, attacked him and escaped.
“The contractors demanded that I approve grants for their fake bills. My son did not oblige to their unlawful demands. Hence those two fellows followed my son and cut his hands off for not signing their bills,” says Kalamma, Srinivas's mother.
The family of Srinivas has filed a complaint at the Kudur Police station. Srinivas is being treated in Punya Hospital in Basaveshwaranagar, Bengaluru.
So far, the senior officers of the department have not visited Srinivas. They have neither bothered to appreciate Srinivas's actions and offer moral support, nor have they made an effort to catch the culprits and take action against them.
