After receiving complaints of corruption in Facebook, the Vigilance Directorate is now contemplating to expand this facility to the other social media WhatsApp. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, Vigilance Director KB Singh informed that the complaints about corruption would now be received in the WhatsApp account of the directorate. Singh said that after launching the Facebook page of the directorate in May this year, the department has received several complaints and in six of them FIRs have been registered initiating investigation. “We are going to extend the same facility in the WhatsApp account to curb corruption,” he said.
Singh hoped that that the tech-savvy youths would now be more involved in helping the Government put a check on corruption by use of the social media. He said the identities of the informers would be kept secret.
Meanwhile, a team of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Gujarat police led by IGP Shamsher Singh, completed its two-day visit to the State Vigilance Directorate here on Thursday. The team had come here on Wednesday to study the practices followed by Vigilance sleuths here leading to registration and detection of large numbers of corruption cases. The Odisha Vigilance had registered 368 corruption cases in the year 2014 against various government employees, including high-ranking officials. The investigations into it have led to confiscation and attachment of properties in disproportionate asset cases.