The Supreme Court on Monday admitted a petition filed by a divisional engineer of BSNL, who allegedly was being victimised by the PSU for detecting an illegal call routing racket involving a powerful private cellular operator.
Sensing that he could be one of those unfortunate ‘whistle blowers’ facing harassment for acting against vested interests, a Bench headed by Justice H S Bedi admitted the petition filed by Azam Siddiqui, an Indian Engineering Service officer, and stayed the proceedings initiated against him by the PSU. Earlier, the Bench had issued notices to BSNL, Department of Telecom (DoT) and the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) seeking their responses. Siddiqui has approached the apex court, challenging a Delhi High Court ruling that set aside the Central Administrative Tribunal's (CAT) order that quashed the chargesheet issued against him.
Our comments: See the fate of Divisional Engineer. He only discovered that a private telecom operator is illegally routing calls of foreign calls as local calls through his exchange. He fought for BSNL welfare. From this article, it is clearly seen that he has been given charge sheet, enquired about his role by CBI and DoT. At last they have found that what he said was true. BSNL was also benefitted by his action. Lakhs were recovered from that private operator.
It is for Joint Action committee of that state to provide all help to that DE so that more officers and staff will come out with more truths. The only beneficiary is BSNL and not individuals. It is for all unions to protect all honest officers to ward of ill effects of private operators. Let JAC stands up and take up the case of the DE. More naked truths will come out only . If JAC fails to safeguard that DE, no body will venture to go into wrongdoings of private operators.
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