M N Vijayakumar 22nd May 2017

mnvkumar@gmail.com Bangalore
Mob No. 9343833168

Letter from M N Vijayakumar, retired IAS officer, Karnataka Cadre, 1981 Batch addressed
to the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh and others to facilitate proper investigation into
the death of Shri Anurag Tiwari, IAS officer of Karnataka Cadre
I am writing this letter with a sense of great pain and anguish as yet another honest IAS officer
from Karnataka, Shri Anurag Tiwari has been silenced at a very young age. I feel it is my duty
to give certain critical information to all authorities involved in the probing of the mysterious
death of Shri Anurag Tiwari as such information is bound to be certainly suppressed by the
senior IAS officers including the Chief Secretary in Karnataka. I myself survived three attempts
on my life (twice while under police protection that took place after the first attempt was
reported in the New York Times) from my seniors for reporting their corrupt activities to
various authorities in the Government. My exhaustive documentation from 2005 to 2015
about how corrupt senior officers harass honest junior officers has enabled me to give
authentic information about the modus operandi of corrupt IAS mafia to silence the honest
officers in Karnataka. I am sure Shri Anurag Tiwari would have revealed to honest officials
who worked under him about the threats he was facing from corrupt senior officers. I also did
the same thing while I was in Service. But I went to the extreme of informing the very officers
who were threatening me for exposing their corrupt activities to hold them accountable and
responsible if I was killed.
I am giving certain information because even if the case is entrusted to the CBI, the corrupt
IAS mafia in Karnataka is so powerful and ruthless that is has the capability to derail proper
investigation by tampering documentary evidences to mislead even the CBI. I have also
documented how the corrupt officers IAS in Karnataka are so arrogantly confident that they
even file false affidavits before Courts in the country to protect corrupt officers
The life of any honest serving officer who wishes to give information about threats to Shri
Anurag Tiwaris life, will be made miserable by corrupt officers. But, in spite of knowing this,
that too when all Karnataka IAS officers are keeping quiet, newspapers yesterday have
reported about a junior State government officials commendable act of voluntarily
informing the Press about the threats faced by Shri Anurag Tiwari.
Critical verifiable information must not be ignored by the Police investigating the suspicious
death of Shri Anurag Tiwari, IAS officer of Karnataka. The following information with details
of authentic documentary evidences have been sent to the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh
and the DG & IG, UP and also to some serving IPS and IAS officers of UP with a request to
bring the content of the letter to the notice of the family members of the deceased Shri
Anurag Tiwari. To make things easily understandable, information is given as replies to
questions which are being frequently raised about the possibility of Shri Anurag Tiwari being
murdered by corrupt officers.

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1. Did Shri Anurag Tiwari just before attending training speak to any outsider in
Bangalore about scams in Food & Civil Supplies Department?

Shri Anurag Tiwari though reluctant initially, after being confronted with some
documents had spoken for about 2 hours before he went for training to some persons
from an organisation about the scam in Food & Civil Supplies Department and
informed them that he was not being supported by his seniors. He had also informed
them to come back for more information after he returned from training. A few days
back I was informed by another responsible person in that organisation about some
legal impediments in making the information public. As suppression of such critical
information would hamper investigation into the death of Shri Anurag Tiwari, I spoke
to Shri K V Dhananjay, a Supreme Court Advocate about the legal impediment and he
gave certain suggestions. In turn I spoke to a person in that organisation who handles
legal matters. He was surprised to hear about the legal impediment as he was the first
person to know such things in that organisation! However he informed me that he
would speak to me after verification but has not done so far. As I have shared certain
critical information related to this with only another person apart from Shri K V
Dhananjay, I would like to give details only to the SIT

a. I want to mention here a similar thing which happened in my case. Incidentally an

attempt (second) was made on my life after I had informed concerned officers
about not taking action on the rampant corruption observed by me in the
Authority in which I was working and reported to the Government within less than
a week after taking charge. I had given a report based on inputs made available to
me by honest officials. I have attached a copy of the email sent by me to the
Principal Secretary, Water Resources Department clearly indicating the date on
which I would file complaint with the police if no action is taken on my corruption
report- Filing complaint against KNNN.pdf. Instead of taking action on my report,
to prevent from filing the complaint, an attempt was made in the morning of the
very day on which I had informed a week earlier that I would be filing complaint. I
have also attached my letter addressed to the Superintendent of Police forwarded
to the Home Department immediately after I survived an attempt on my life- MNV
2ndattempt.pdf.

2. Has no one reported corruption scam in Anna Bhagya?-

I was informed in 2014 that huge money was being looted in rice procurement for the
Annabhagya program using the following three methods (By this time Newspapers
also reported about some of these scams):
a. Procuring substandard rice and paying higher price pocketing a huge commission

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 b. When there is stock of good rice, procuring already rotten rice at higher price and
replacing the good rice with rotten rice and selling the good rice to illegally earn
money.
c. Making the good rice to deliberately rot to procure fresh rice, to get more
commission.

To expose this, I had written the letter No. PER/255/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2014 dated

21st August 2014 to the Chief Secretary with copies to the Lokayukta and other senior
officers vested with the responsibility of preventing such scams. Till today, I have not
been informed of any action taken on my letter by any of the recipients of my letter.
Certainly this could have grown into a huge procurement scam which Shri. Anurag
Tiwari could have easily unearthed during a very short time. It is not a leakage as
informed to the media now by a senior IAS officer who was earlier heading the Food
and Civil Supplies department.

3. Whether one of the methods used in the three attempts to murder me could have
also been used in Shri Anurag Tiwaris case as it can throw light upon many
presently unexplainable facts?
b. First attempt made to kill me has been elaborately given in the New York Times
report dated 5th July 2007 http://fightcorruption.wdfiles.com/local--
files/start/nyt.JPG .Two former DG and IGPs of Karnataka expressed shock over
the reason used to get me out of my house in the middle of the night to get me
killed by corrupt IAS officers against whom I had given report. Fortunately in my
case, though the people who had come to kill me had got all the other facts
thoroughly checked, they had not verified one crucial fact. Otherwise, I would
have also gone with them with whatever clothes I was wearing in a state of panic
in the middle of the night and would have been found dead the next morning.
c. In the second attempt in September 2007, While I was supposed to be under police
protection (24x7), a person claiming to be an officer from the Intelligence Bureau
came early in the morning to the guest house in which I was staying and asked
me to go with him on the pretext that he had to protect me as my life was under
threat. Details of the compliant given to the Superintendent of Police (informed
to the Home Department) is attached MNV 2ndattempt.pdf.
d. In the third attempt in December 2007, I was found unconscious in my own office
as a result of tempering of medicines I was taking. Police not taking any action in
any of the above cases and other plots to eliminate me in subsequent years have
been given in my letter No. PER/94/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2015 dated 17th March 2015.

4. Is it possible to unearth major scams if one has worked for a very short time?
Many are arguing that Shri Anurag Tiwari having worked for less than 40 days in Food and
Civil Supplies Department could not have exposed any major scam. All major scams
reported by me have been done within a week after taking charge (I have given one such
instance earlier in this letter itself). In fact if a senior officer is honest, subordinate honest

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officials will give details of major scams buried by corrupt officers. All an honest senior
officer heading a department has to do is to request any of the honest subordinates to
inform him about scams buried. For an IAS officer with integrity and courage, 30 days is
more than enough to unearth major scams buried by his predecessors.
5. Are Indian Forensic Laboratories capable of detecting drug administered deaths?

I learnt from a retired police officer that Shri Anurag Tiwari could have been murdered and
that a heart attack could be stimulated or simulated. The retired Police officer informed of
a case of attempt to murder of another police officer which was carried out by mixing drugs
in his food to induce heart attack. While the Indian forensic laboratory gave a report that
it was a natural heart attack, after sending the stomach samples to a foreign forensic lab,
it was proved that it was a drug induced heart attack. The photograph published in
newspapers today showing the manner in which the Police officers and the medical team
are trying to reconstruct the death scene of Shri Anurag Tiwari gives rise to doubt their
professionalism and certainly finding out that Shri Anurag Tiwari was murdered by
something similar to a drug induced heart attack appears to be beyond their capacity.
Unfortunately, even though they are aware that their laboratories cannot unearth drug
induced murders, they would not admit. Hence the family members must demand that
the samples should be properly preserved, secured and sent to a reputed international
forensic laboratory.

6. Has Government of Karnataka acted upon corruption reports in which senior IAS
officers are involved?
My letter No PER/381/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2014 dated 22nd Nov 2014 sent to various
authorities in the country and to all Additional Chief Secretaries exhaustively documents
how the Honble Chief Minister Shri Siddaramiah along with then Chief Secretary Shri
Kaushik Mukherjee criminally conspired, to protect corrupt officers against whom I had
given report

7. Will the present Chief Secretary, Shri SC Khuntia who himself is being protected by
the corrupt IAS mafia hamper proper investigation?
Last para of my letter dated 21st Oct 2016 available at http://depenq.com and Para 6
of my letter dated 12th Oct 2016 also available at http://depenq.com show how the
corrupt IAS mafia protected Shri S C Khuntia even after his swindling of government
money got established. An officer who willingly supresses facts from even the Highest
Court that too in connection with giving protection to honest officers cannot be expected
to reveal confidential information given by the deceased Shri Anurag Tiwari( Records in
the Government show that since 1986, I was informing/sending confidential reports
about corrupt practices indulged into by my senior officers).

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8. Can Senior Police officers in Karnataka who have always been willing to act as per
the whims of Shri Kempaiah, Advisor to the Home Minister, ignoring public interest,
be expected to act professionally in this case?
This becomes particularly important when Shri Kempaiahs antecedents have been
admitted to the media by the then Chief Secretary to have not been verified at all
before appointing him as Adviser. Information made available at
http://depenq.com/PDFF/KEMP.pdf shows not only corruption but crimes increased
after Shri Kempaiah was appointed as Adviser. Newspaper reports stating that a
Deputy Director of a forensic laboratory was present unofficially during the post
mortem of Sri Anurag Tiwari and was trying to influence the doctors to give a report
of natural death as the cause, brings back memories of Shri Kempaiahs unauthorized
presence during the post mortem of Shri DK. Ravi, an IAS officer from Karnataka who
was found hanging in his house. Investigation should probe who had sent the Deputy
Director to be unofficially present during the post mortem of Shri Anurag Tiwari.

9. Whether the CBI can be expected to conduct a professional investigation?

A CBI officer investigating the death of Shri DK Ravi(an IAS officer from Karnataka),
visited my house in 2015 to collect certain letters written by me to the Chief Secretary
which were deliberately suppressed by the then Chief Secretary Shri Koushik
Mukherji. During the discussion, the surprising fact that got revealed was that the
ceiling fan from which Shri DK Ravis body was found hanging did not contain any
fingerprints, including Shri DK. Ravis nor were any materials found which were used
to wipe the fan of all dust containing the fingerprints. Why would a person about to
die be not only was concerned about removing his fingerprints from the ceiling fan
but also found it important to remove all traces of the materials used to wipe the fan
clean has remained a mystery till today. Further, the presence of Sri Kempaiah, Advisor
to the Home Minister, during the post mortem allowed scope for the tampering of
medical evidences. The demand for second post portem of the body of DK Ravi was
not considered at all gives an indication that even the CBI investigation is not
professional. The CBI officer also stated that the documentary evidences in my case
clearly established that the senior officers against whom I had given reports
repeatedly conspired to get me killed. He voluntarily revealed even a more dangerous
fact that an attempt was made on his own life when he was investigating the
corruption case against an IAS officer. The fact that a former Director of the CBI has
been charge sheeted for interfering with the investigation into a major corruption
scam involving IAS officers gives an impression that the IAS mafia in the country is very
powerful and can take control of the investigation conducted by the highest agencies
in the country. All my police complaints and the corruption complaints given to the
Lokayukta have not been acted upon till today. Decision is pending in my own case
filed before a competent authority against Chief Secretaries who conspired to get me
killed. In that case, the CVC and the CBI were suo moto made parties by the competent
authority.

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 10. Are there evidences to show that any officer exposing the corrupt acts of his
seniors being criminally harassed and even attempts made to murder such an
officer in Karnataka?
i. My own case- Though being a very senior IAS officer, details of how I was
physically/financially/mentally harassed for reporting corrupt activities of my
senior officers and repeatedly refusing to compromise with corruption are available
at http://depenq.com and http://fightcorruption.wikidot.com/ in particular in a
summarised manner for the period 2006 to 2010 at
http://fightcorruption.wikidot.com/mar26 ) I have survived three attempts on my
life (twice while under police protection) Officers involved in the conspiracy to get
me killed were not only protected but were also rewarded with promotions and
post retirement jobs by the Chief Secretary. (Letter No.
PER/402/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2013 dated 26th Oct 2013 addressed to the Chief
Secretary with copies to the CVC, the CBI, the Lokayukta and 5 other officers
available at http://depenq.com/PDFF/SVR.pdf ). How the police was pressurised
not to act against those who attempted to murder me is given in my letter No.
PER/94/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2015 dated 17th March 2015 addressed to the Chief
Secretary to place my letter before the State Cabinet.

ii. Cases of others officers like Shri DK.Ravi (found hanging in his house), Smt Rashmi
(physically attacked), Shri Mahantesh(murdered), Shri Matthai (being harassed) ,
Kum. Anupanma Shenoy (was forced to resign) all available on the internet.

iii. I have documented very large number of cases of very junior honest State
government officials driven to suicide by their corrupt bosses and how corrupt
Chief Secretaries allowed such honest officials to lose their lives ignoring my
innumerable letters to give protection to honest officials are available in my letter
No PER/181/OSD/DPAR/DEM/2014 dated 26th Jun 2014

11. Whether threat to life reported by honest officers to their seniors are seriously acted
upon.
Corruption by senior officers reported by a junior officer and threats to his life from
corrupt senior officers are both treated as delusional. Corrupt senior officers do not
hesitate to question the mental health of the junior officer for reporting senior officers
corrupt acts. This brazen intimidation on record puts fear in the minds of honest officers
to report about corruption by seniors. This happens because Chief Secretaries of Karnataka
since 2006 have deliberately not created the system to protect honest officers as per the
2004 letter of the Cabinet Secretary issued after the murder of the Whistle-blower Sri.
Satyendra Dubey. Please see attached letter sent by me to then Honble Prime Minister
Whistle-Blowers Protection Bill.pdf). Further, non-notification of the Whistle-blowers
Protection Act passed in 2014 has emboldened the corrupt senior officers to indulge in
harassment of honest junior officers in a brazen manner http://depenq.com . There is
absolutely no forum for the honest officers to approach as even the CVC and the CBI do
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 Service officers working in various State governments. The Hota Committee appointed by
the Government of India went out of its scope to mention this critical fact and even
suggested to address this issue immediately probably because of my innumerable letters
addressed in this regard to the Government of India. The issue is still pending and
government of India has not taken any action.

Hence I request the officers mentioned below to immediately take following actions in view
of the above facts:
1. Shri RP BHATNAGAR , Chief Secretary , Uttar Pradesh, Shri ARVIND KUMAR, , Principal
Secretary, Home department, UP, psecup.home@nic.in and Shri SULKHAN SINGH ,DG
dgp@up.nic.in DG of Police, Uttar Pradesh, Shri SANJAY SINGHAL , IGP , UP, igzonegkr-
up@nic.in,
a. Should instruct the SIT to collect all the letters for which reference numbers have been
given in this letter from Sri SC. Khuntia, Chief Secretary, Karnataka
b. Should make arrangements to send this letter in its entirety to the family members of Sri
Anurag Tiwari and also provide them my email ID and mobile number to enable them to
contact me.
c. Should bring this letter in entirety to the notice of the Honble Chief Minister of Uttar
Pradesh to enable him to quickly entrust the case to the CBI as demanded by the family
members of Shri Anurag Tiwari.
d. In view of the manner in which the case has been handled so far, to immediately take
action to preserve, secure and arrange to get the samples analysed by an internationally
reputed forensic laboratory.
e. Instruct the SIT to personally contact me to get more confidential details from me which I
cannot reveal in the letter in the interest of other honest officers and safety of me and my
family members.

2. Shri SC. Khuntia, Chief Secretary, Karnataka to make available all the letters (along with
annexures) whose reference numbers have been given in this letter to the SIT which visits
Karnataka (ie letters dated 26th Jun 2014, 21st Aug 2014, 22nd Nov 2014 and 17th March
2015 ). He should not suppress my letters from the SIT as his predecessor Shri Koushik
Mukherji did in the case of Shri DK.Ravi forcing the CBI to visit my house to collect the
letters suppressed by him.

3. Shri RK. Dutta, DG and IG of Police, Karnataka in view of the serious facts mentioned in
this letter, he should not yield to the pressure of Sri Kempaiah and facilitate proper
investigation which is bound to expose the criminal activities of many senior officers
protected by the Chief Minister through Shri Kempaiah, Adviser, Home Department.
I would be releasing this letter to the media also in larger public interest

M N Vijayakumar

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Copies to:
1. The Cabinet Secretary, Government of India, - with a request to bring the letter to
the notice of the Honble Prime Minister of India to convince him the urgency to notify
the Whistle-blowers Protection Act without dilution with immediate effect to prevent
further deaths of honest officers as non-notification of the Act and its dilution through
proposed amendments has emboldened the corrupt senior officers to harass honest
junior officials.
2. The Secretary, DoPT - to take measures to get all States to create mechanism to
protect honest officers working in States as was intended in the 2004 letter of the
Cabinet Secretary issued after the murder of whistleblower Shri Satyendra
Dubey(refer to my innumerable letters sent to DoPT since 2008 in this regard which
have not been produced before the Honble Supreme Court which heard the PIL to
protect Whistle-blowers WP (Civil) 93/2004 - as the final Order in this case does not
mention anything about protection to officials working in State governments as only
submissions made by the CVC is mentioned which has no jurisdiction over officials
working in State governments).
3. The Honble Lokayukta, Karnataka for information
4. Shri K V Dhananjay, as his name is mentioned at Sl No 1 in the main baody of the
letter
5. To many serving and retired IAS officers of Karnataka (attachments and references
have been removed in the forwarded mail. If anyone requests me personally, I will
send it to them) I request the honest among them to write/speak to Shri SC. Khuntia,
Chief Secretary not to supress critical facts from the SIT about scam in Anna Bhagya
program.
6. Some IAS and IPS officers of Uttar Pradesh with a request to make available this
letter to the family members of Shri Anurag Tiwari.