Corruption

Introduction Corruption in simple terms may be defined as "an act of bribery" . It has been described as profit in a way that constitute a breach of law or a deviation from the norms of society. it involves all types of person and groups such as politician, officials, policemen, and other citizens including businessmen, industrialists, bankers, etc. whether as individual or groups including white collars criminals who break the law and don not live by honest means. The committe on prevention of corruption (1964) observe that, "in it widest connatation, corruption includes improper or selfish execrise of prower and influence attached to a public office or to a special position ones occupies in public life" Andriski considers it as "the use of public prower for private advantage in ways which transgress some formal rule or law." Corruption in any system or society depends on three factors. the first is the set of individual sense of value , the second is the set of value which are accepted by the society as whole and third , the system of governence or administration.

Corruption in India Corruption in India is a phenomena that one has to face practically at every level and every way of life . In India we can find various forms of corruption i.e corruption by (a)Politician (b) Policemen (c) Officials (D) Bussinessmen (E)Individual or white collar crime Corruption by politician: The illicit use of power by politician has turned the entire Indian body polity into a venal one, where there is prices corruption crept into the Indian body politics seventies in a major way and since then this cencer has spread across the length and breath of the country

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