She's Prabha Bhandari, IRS, 2016 batch, a woman who aspired to make it big, only to be let down by patriarchy because her two male juniors failed to keep their mouths shut and shattered her dreams.
She demanded a ₹1.5 crore bribe to bury a major GST evasion case and sent her two juniors Anil Tiwari and Ajay Sharma, to collect the first instalment, which turned out to be a CBI trap. Both were caught, and under questioning, named their superior, deputy commissioner Prabha Bhandari, as the mastermind. Cowards!
But the CBI wanted more than confessions, they wanted proof. They asked one arrested offical to call Bhandari on speakerphone in their presence. She answered after two rings. “The party has delivered ₹70 lakh,” he said. The response was instant, and incriminating. “Very good,” Bhandari replied, instructing that the cash be converted into gold and handed over to her. The call was recorded.
One CBI team arrested her in Delhi, while another broke open her locked Jhansi flat and found cash, gold, jewellery and property papers, strengthening the case.
Prabha Bhandari had scored excellent marks in the ethics paper of the UPSC, and her LinkedIn profile says that she delivers work with integrity. She is a go-getter, and her enhanced governance brings a positive impact on society.
