When an organisation is determined to prove itself right even if it has made
a mistake, it misuses the law’s nitty gritty to keep maligning the ‘victim’,
just to maintain a point. Any withdrawal or back tracking of the actions taken
by an organisation will be construed as a mistake. Rear Admiral (Retd) BR Menon
who was the Chairman of Managing Director of Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) between
1995-2000 reminiscences that, “My only mistake was that I was trying to clense
the GSL,” and yes, he has written it candidly in his book ‘Honesty Victimised,
CBI Politicised’.
In his book, he explains that the
travails, mudslinging and tardy functioning of the Central Bureau of
Investigations (CBI) as we see today are not new. Describing his personal
experience while dealing with the CBI, in his book, Admiral Menon speaks of the
rot that had afflicted the system decades ago. The book mentions his saga of
trials and tribulations of an honest and a high calibre Indian Naval officer
who was prosecuted by the CBI as a result of deliberate political victimization
and how he fought for thirteen long years to get himself exonerated and
acquitted after his retirement.
He explains in his book that as a CMD of GSL he did what was
most essentially required to transform the decaying Shipyard by influx of
illegal unions backed by political forces. He derecognised all the political
union leaders and officer bearers and asked them to contest elections within
the campus of the GSL. He also ensured that he did not heed to many requests
from the then Defense Minister to give jobs to his cronies. “I am here to
improve the assets of GSL and not to increase its liabilities,” Admiral Menon
mentions it in his book.
The
book exposes on how a bold defence officer had the moral courage with
conviction to take on the CBI and the state machinery upfront.
