Boycott the corrupt to end corruption: Justice Santosh Hegde

Former Lokayukta Santosh Hegde said that corruption in India cannot be checked unless society boycotted corrupt people.

Launching the website of an NGO, Rebuild India, at the Bangalore Press Club on Wednesday, Hegde said the quantum of money involved in various scams in the country was increasing at an alarming rate.

“The Bofors scam cost the country Rs64 crore. The Commonwealth Games scam cost Rs8,000 crore and 2G spectrum Rs1.76 lakh crore in 2010. The latest is the coal blocks allocation scam that involved Rs1.86 lakh crore,” Hegde said.

“A few people who benefited from these scams are invited to functions and felicitated them because they are in power,” Justice Hegde said.  However, the former judge also admitted that he could not find solutions to many problems of people, that he encountered during his tenure as Lokayukta.