1. “TO SEE A WRONG AND NOT TO EXPOSE IT, IS TO
BECOME A SILENT PARTNER TO ITS
CONTINUANCE.”
- DR. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER
Biologist, Physical
anthropologist,
and Professor at the
University of Oxford

2. WHISTLE BLOWING IN ITS MOST GENERAL FORM
INVOLVES CALLING (PUBLIC) ATTENTION TO
WRONG DOING, TYPICALLY IN ORDER TO AVERT
HARM.

3. A whistleblower is an employee, former
employee, or any individual who reports
misconduct to people or entities that have
the power and presumed willingness to take
corrective action.

4. AREA OF WHISTLE BLOWING
Whistleblowers may make their allegations
•Internally
(to other people within
the accused
organization)
Internal Whistle
Blowing
•Externally
(to regulators, law
enforcement agencies,
to the media or to
groups concerned with
the issues)
External Whistle
Blowing

5. WHISTLE BLOWERS IN INDIA..

6. Dr. Ashok Khemka
senior INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE officer in
the Indian state of HARYANA.

8. Mr. Robert vadra
Businessman

9. THE ACTUAL REWARD!!!

10. DEATH THREAT
KHEMKA, WHO TOOK ON THE STATE GOVERNMENT OVER
SUSPICIOUS LAND DEALS BETWEEN CONGRESS
PRESIDENT SONIA GANDHI'S SON-IN-LAW ROBERT
VADRA AND REAL ESTATE MAJOR DLF, HAS RECEIVED
FRESH DEATH THREATS. A COMPLAINT HAS BEEN
LODGED WITH THE PANCHKULA POLICE BY HSDC CHIEF
MANAGER K.R. SHARMA. EARLIER ALSO, SOON AFTER HE
CAME OUT AGAINST VADRA-DLF LAND DEALS, KHEMKA
HAD ALLEGED THAT HE WAS FACING DEATH THREATS
FROM ANONYMOUS PEOPLE.
CHARGESHEETS FILED AGAINST ASHOK KHEMKA

12. Shri Kisan Baburao "Anna" Hazare
Indian social activist

13. KISAN BABURAO HAZARE WAS BORN ON 15 JUNE 1937.
HE STARTED SELLING FLOWERS AT THE DADAR RAILWAY
STATION IN MUMBAI AND EVENTUALLY MANAGED TO
OWN TWO FLOWER SHOPS IN THE CITY.HE ALSO
BECAME INVOLVED IN VIGILANTISM, JOINING GROUPS
WHO ACTED TO PREVENT LANDLORDS' THUGS FROM
INTIMIDATING THE POOR OUT OF THEIR SHELTER.
HAZARE WAS DRAFTED IN THE INDIAN ARMY IN APRIL
1960. OFFICIAL RECORDS SHOW THAT HE WAS
HONOURABLY DISCHARGED IN 1975 AFTER COMPLETING
12 YEARS OF SERVICE.

14. The 2012 Indian anti-corruption movement is a series
of demonstrations and protests across India intended to establish
strong legislation and enforcement against perceived
endemic political corruption.

16. ACHEIVEMENTS
• Anti-corruption protests in Maharashtra.
• Right to Information movement.
• Regulation of Transfers and Prevention of Delay
in Discharge of Official Duties Act.
• Campaign against liquor from food grains.
• Lokpal Bill movement.
• Electoral reform movement.
• Protest against atrocities against Swami
Ramdev and his supporters.

17. The Actual Reward!!!

18. •Accusations of corruption.
•Accusation of being anti-
democratic.
•Accusation of being anti-Dalit.
•Accusation of being anti-Muslim.
•Arrest.
•Conspiracy to murder Hazare.

19. Indian Army General (retd) V K SINGH

20. He was the first commando to be promoted general and was
also the first serving Indian military chief to take the
Government to court.
Vijay Kumar Singh was born in Bapora village, Bhiwani district,
in the Indian state of Haryana. His father was a Colonel in the
Indian Army and grandfather a Junior Commissioned Officer
(JCO). Singh was educated at Birla Public
School, Pilani, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.
AWARDS
• Param Vishisht Seva Medal
• Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
• Yudh Seva Medal for his distinguished service during Operation
Pawan.
• Ranger Tab

21. HE HAS WRITTEN COURAGE AND CONVICTION: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
IN 2014, JOINED THE BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY.

22. Army Chief General VK Singh disclosed
that he was offered 14-crores as a bribe
to clear "sub-standard" trucks, a new
surge of attention is being paid to the
7000 Tatra trucks that have been
bought by the Army since 1986.

23. TATRA IS A VEHICLE MANUFACTURER IN CZECH
REPUBLIC. TATRA HAD A TRUCK-BUILDING JOINT
VENTURE IN INDIA CALLED TATRA VECTRA MOTORS
LTD, FORMERLY CALLED TATRA TRUCKS INDIA LTD.
IT IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN TATRA AND THE
VECTRA GROUP FROM ENGLAND.

24. Mr. Dinesh S. Thakur
Director & Global Head, Research Information & Portfolio
Management at Ranbaxy Laboratories.

25. While at Ranbaxy, Mr. Thakur discovered that the
company was falsifying drug data and violating current
good manufacturing practices and good laboratory
practices. He resigned in 2005 after reporting the fraud
to company management, and worked with authorities
for eight years to unravel the complicated trail of
falsified records and dangerous manufacturing
practices. In May 2013, Ranbaxy pleaded guilty to
multiple criminal felonies and agreed to pay $500
million to resolve criminal and civil allegations of
falsified drug data and systemic manufacturing
violations resulting in substandard and unapproved
drugs. The groundbreaking settlement is the largest of
its kind against a generic drug manufacturer.

27. THE ACTUAL REWARD!!!

29. • Becoming a whistle-blower and taking a story public
should be last resort
• After blowing the whistle on fraud:
– 90 percent were fired or demoted
– 27 percent faced lawsuits
– 26 percent had to seek psychiatric or physical care
– 25 percent suffered alcohol abuse
– 17 percent lost their homes
– 15 percent got divorced
– 10 percent attempted suicide
– 8 percent were bankrupted
WHISTLE BLOWING AS A LAST RESORT

30. • An engineer, Satyendra Dubey, was murdered in November 2003;
Dubey had blown the whistle in a corruption case in the National
Highways Authority of India’s Golden Quadrilateral project.
• An Indian Oil Corporation officer, Shanmughan Manjunath, was
murdered for sealing a petrol pump that was selling adulterated
fuel.
• A Karnataka official SP Mahantesh, said to be a whistle-blower in
controversial land allotments by societies was murdered in May
2012.
• A senior police officer alleged that Mayawati's government was
corrupt and had embezzled large amounts of money. Shortly
thereafter, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
SET BACKS TO WHISTLE BLOWING

31. It was approved by the Cabinet of India as part of
a drive to eliminate corruption in the country's
bureaucracy and passed by the Lok Sabha on 27
December 2011. The Bill was passed by Rajya
Sabha on 21 February 2014 and is waiting
for President's assent.
WHISTLE BLOWERS PROTECTION BILL

32. • The Bill seeks to protect whistleblowers, i.e. persons
making a public interest disclosure related to an
• act of corruption, misuse of power, or criminal offence
by a public servant.
• Any public servant or any other person including a non-
governmental organization may make such a
• disclosure to the Central or State Vigilance Commission.
• Every complaint has to include the identity of the
complainant.
• The Vigilance Commission shall not disclose the identity
of the complainant except to the head of the
• department if he deems it necessary.
• The Bill penalises any person who has disclosed the
identity of the complainant.
• The Bill prescribes penalties for knowingly making false
complaints.