Friends,

In the same India Today Article by Sri Sanjay Kumar Jha, there was
also a reference to Sri Manoje Nath. It said- "Manoje Nath, a
1973-batch IPS officer posted as the commissioner, civil defence, in
Patna has the reputation of being fiercely independent, honest and
upright. The Patna High Court has assigned him tasks on many
occasions. In the famous Ms Shikha Gupta case relating to corruption
in education, Nath's report led to the prosecution of four
vice-chancellors and even a retired High Court judge, who had served
as the VC of Magadh University. His report on the state of higher
education in Bihar is as much a detailed expose of the "academic
underworld" as it is a work of literary merit. Nath has not restrained
himself to writing just inquiry reports. A prolific writer, he has
written on subjects ranging from science fiction to globalisation. His
series of humourous articles "Gulliver in Patiliputra" and "Modest
Proposals" in local newspapers have been very popular."
But what is hurting is the fact that the same Sri Manoje Nath had to
pass thru the trouble from an anonymous letter which leveled
allegations ranging from amassing of wealth to sexual abuse against
some top IPS officers in Bihar, including him and DG (Police Building)
Sri Anand Shankar. A private TV channel had in its news telecast on
December 1 shown the copy of the complaints highlighting these
allegations and claimed that Chief Minister Sri Nitish Kumar had
ordered an inquiry into these allegations.
While most of others would have felt crestfallen and would have turned
defensive and jittery, Sri Manoje Nath immediately rose to the
occasion to do the needful by writing a letter to the Chief Secretary
seeking an impartial inquiry into how they reached the TV channel,
dubbing the letter as stage-managed. Interestingly, what happened
later was that the original copy of the "pseudonymous complaint" got
disappeared from the files in the State Home Department, prompting the
authorities to lodge an FIR in this connection and every one concerned
denying having ordered any kind of enquiry in this anonymous complaint.
This is how one has to pay the price for being honest and upright. And
this is what one would like to call real courage and grit.

Amitabh Thakur
SP (Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526