Majority of govt officials are corrupt: HC

Whether you take DDA,police or MCD,90 per cent of their staff are corrupt,” Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra said adding “the only field in which India excels is corruption.”

The court made the remarks while denying bail to a senior officer of a nationalized bank,Gopal Krishna,who is behind bars on corruption charges.

“Bail,and not jail,cannot be the maxim in cases of such corrupt persons who eat away the schemes meant for poor persons floated by the government for their upliftment,” he said.

The bank officer was arrested by CBI following a complaint from a girl that she had applied for a loan of Rs two lakhs under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme but the deputy manager of the bank had demanded Rs 20,000 from her to issue the cheque.

Denying the bail,Justice Dhingra said “many of the government schemes are not able to help the poor because of widespread corruption prevalent among the persons who have to implement the schemes.”

“The most unfortunate fact in this case is that the person who was involved is a deputy manager of the bank. The scheme was floated by the government to help downtrodden and poor. It need not be emphasized as to what is happening to these schemes on ground,” the court said.