It would not have been difficult for the office of the Charity Commissioner to verify if the complaint against Anna Hazare’s Hind Swaraj Trust had substance and veracity. The fact that someone in that august body chose to send to a person like Anna Hazare a showcause notice cannot be without receiving consideration from some person, persons or entity who are out to malign Anna Hazare. The person or persons or an entity who can influence the office of the Charity Commissioner has to be powerful. It is extremely important to go to the bottom of the matter to find out who was behind this misadventure on part of the charity commissioner’s office.
An apology from the office of the Charity Commissioner amounts to letting the actual perpetrators of the offence and their masters go scot free. The Commissioner should have on its own ordered an inquiry into the matter and taken severe disciplinary or legal action against the persons responsible. Anna Hazare has done the right thing by asking his lawyers to proceed against the wrong doers, whose names and the names of their “handlers” come to light.
Dr Mookhi Amir Ali
Mumbai, M’rashtra