India salutes these civil servants who lost lives in service
Many people in India aspire to work in the civil services, but the path is difficult and requires a great deal of dedication. Numerous committed civil servants have brought honor to the nation with their outstanding work, including a few courageous public servants who gave their lives to serve their country. Here are five courageous public servants you should be aware of.
IPS officer Randhir Prasad Verma died resisting armed bank robbery
Randhir Prasad Verma, a 1974-batch IPS officer, was known for eliminating several criminal gangs in Jharkhand's Dhanbad. Verma, who was Dhanbad's Superintendent of Police, was killed by some armed men who attempted to rob a bank in 1991. Before being shot, he single-handedly took on many robbers. He was posthumously awarded Ashoka Chakra gallantry award; a commemorative postage stamp was issued in his honor.
Satyendra Dubey, an IES officer who died fighting corruption
Satyendra Dubey was a dedicated and honest civil servant who died fighting corruption He was an officer of the Indian Engineering Services and was one of the project directors of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He was reportedly murdered in 2003 for exposing high-level corruption in the central government's Golden Quadrilateral Highway construction project.
Gulzar Hussain, a police officer killed by outlawed NDFB outfit
Gulzar Hussain was a senior police officer who was killed in an ambush by the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland's Songbijit faction in Assam's Sonitpur district in 2014. The Additional Superintendent of Police of Sonitpur was killed while returning from a night-long operation against the militants on the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. Hussain was one of the cops killed in the gruesome NDFB attack.
Shanmugam Manjunath was murdered for exposing oil mafia
Shanmugam Manjunath was a "Grade A" officer working with the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). This brave officer was also murdered for raising voice against corruption by exposing oil mafia in Uttar Pradesh. He had exposed and sealed illegal petrol pumps that sold adulterated fuel in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. His opposition to corruption led to his murder in 2005.
IPS officer Narendra Kumar too paid heavy price for honesty
Narendra Kumar, a 2009-batch IPS officer from Bihar, also paid a heavy price for fighting corruption. He is known for battling illegal stone-mining when he was posted in Madhya Pradesh's Morena district. However, his fight against the mining mafia also led to his murder. In 2012, he was crushed to death by a tractor illegally carrying stones when he was trying to stop it.
