If there is a possibility in enlisting the names of people who are honest, loyal and duty-minded employees, the list ends up even before the clock hits a minute. Such is the number of the respectable government employees in the country. One can be shocked to acknowledge a responsible employee in govt sector, days are like that.

Coming to the story, here’s HR Srinivas, a technical coordinator for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), and he has this rarest of the rare quality ‘honesty’ about which he thought will make him fulfil his duty satisfactorily. And the price he paid for being an honest government servant will break your heart.

While performing his duties, there came a moment when he has to reject the bill, which later turned on the few contractors furious. After Srinivas rejected the bills, the related contractors turned on their dark sides and threatened him, following this, they even chopped off his arms.

Srinivas is now undergoing the crucial treatment, where doctors are trying their best to recover his arm.

According to the sources, this happened when Srinivas discovered a recharge pit where the contractors had exaggerated the measurements of work. The official estimate of the pit was 69,000 which was decided to be reduced to 42,000 per pit. This size of the pit was the main reason behind the whole hullaballoo.

Ignoring the contractors’ words, he went forward and the furious contractors did this to get rid of him.

When asked about the incident, Srinivas said:

“After finishing work, I was riding back to Magadi from Kunigal, about 20 km away, on my two-wheeler when Keshava and Manjunath followed me on a bike. At Thalakere, one of them pulled out a machete and swung it at me. They missed. As I slowed down, they slashed my right hand. Before they could strike again, I took a U-turn and sped away till I reached a tea stall. When I stopped, I realised my hand had been chopped and I was soaked in blood. The people at the tea stall called an ambulance and shifted me to a hospital in Magadi and then to Bengaluru.”

This kind of cases was registered a lot of times, earlier, a Karnataka employee was threatened for being honest. A panchayat development officer named Arun Kumar G belonging to Mysuru had committed suicide, left a five-page suicide note, being honest and truthful are the reasons behind his death, as he mentioned.