Bengaluru: A retired IAS officer M.N. Vijayakumar has claimed that Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari, who was found dead recently in Lucknow, was about to expose a scam in the Food & Civil Supplies department and called for a thorough and impartial investigation
At a press conference here on Tuesday he said, “I myself survived three attempts on my life from my seniors for reporting their corrupt activities to various authorities in the government and I am sure Anurag would have revealed to honest officials who worked under him about the threats he was facing from corrupt senior officers.”
He recounted that he did the same thing while in service. “But I went to the extent of informing the very officers who were threatening me for exposing their corrupt activities to hold them accountable and responsible if I was killed,” he added.
It may be recalled that Vijayakumar, a 1981-batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, was dismissed few days before he was due to retire in 2015.
He dismissed the argument that as Anurag had worked in the Civil Supplies department for less than 40 days, he could not have exposed any major scam. “For an IAS Officer with integrity a2nd courage, 30 days is more than enough to unearth major scams buried by his predecessors,” he said.
