7 Civil Servants Who Paid Heavily for Being Honest

MN Vijay Kumar: He has been harassed, threatened, humiliated, and many more, this is probably the best possible way to honor any officer who is honestly rendering his services to the government. Vijay Kumar, the one and only IAS officer in 2007 to declare his assets and liabilities like they are supposed to do.

Kumar fought against the corruption that is decaying the system the state, for this ‘crime’ he was awarded with six transfers, six times in six consecutive months during the regime of Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The government proved the corruption right, as opposed to the honest officer.

Shanmugan Manjunath: The reward given to this IIM graduate who left his prosperous future for delivering his services to the Indian government was a brutal murder. In 2005, Manjunath, an A-Grade officer of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) had seized a petrol station, in Lakhimpur Kheri district of UP, on charges of selling adulterated fuel for three months. He was shot dead the same night by the pump owner. He surely doesn’t deserve such heavy punishment. He surrendered himself to the pursuit of the truth, in spite of being well aware of the consequences.

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