Jasveer Singh is the police officer who “took on the feudal ‘king’ of Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, Kunwar Raghuraj Pratap Singh, the person well known to us as ‘Raju Bhaiyya’.” Bhupinder tells us (and analyses) the kinds of troubles that befall upright officers like him:
The administrative services, and Indian Engineering Services, was still an option for many who came from the smaller towns and the more middle of the urban middle classes. It was rather popular because the number of engineers qualifying for the exams had dramatically increased in the past years… The result was a stream of engineers joining the services, leading to a change in not only the educational background but also a change in the the social background of the recruits.
This, resulted in many of the recruits not ‘knowing’ the system, far less knowing how to navigate themselves within it. [...]
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