Letter to Editor.

Sir ,

A news item published in 28 December 2011 issue of The Hitvada caught my attention.

It was about award of two and half years in jail and imposition of fine of Rs 10,000/- for taking bribe of Rs 300/-

Out of curiosity I just googled for "corrupt  Indian politicians". The search revealed 4,490,000 entries . The figure was mind boggling . Further search at wiki link ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_politicians_in_India_charged_with_corruption ) gave incomplete list of Indian politicians charged with corruption.

Few of them were acquitted for various reasons.

As given in the above link Sukh Ram was tried for unaccounted sum of Rs 3.6 Lakh and sentenced to 3 years in jail.For another scam when he was Telecom Minister he was sentenced to 5 years in jail . In this case amount of money involved is not known to me.

Taking  the punishment mated out to the hapless DDA official as datum, Sukh Ram should have got 2400 years of jail and a fine of 96 Lakhs.Mind boggling !!

Suresh Kalmadi is being tried for alleged scandal of Rs 95 crores . If ( and it is big IF ) found guilty he should get jail for approximately 62000 years and a fine of Rs 2850 crores.MIND BOGGLING !!!

A Raja and others charged with alleged corruption of 176000 crores, If ( and it is big IF ) found guilty , would get a jail sentence of 16600000000 years and a fine of Rs 5280000 crores. MIND BOGGLING !!!

It would indeed be interesting to see the amount of Jail sentence and fine  these worthies are awarded , If  ever they are found guilty or may be they have different laws for the rich and the politicians. 

PM Velankar,Nagpur.