1) Dereliction of duty
i.e. failure to perform official functions in a timely and purposeful manner
2) Negligence in
performance of duty i.e. performance in a faulty way that endangers the public,
public goods and public exchequer, and/or causes harm or possibility of
harm/loss to the public
3) Non-exercise of
due-diligence while performing duties
4) Actions that cause
public loss of faith in the public office
5) Conduct that causes
harm to public interest and public welfare
6) Delays in
performance of official duties
7) Irregularities i.e.
official behavior for non-official purposes
8) Solicitation of
bribe of Rs ________, or favours in kind.
9) Redirecting persons
to touts and agents
10) Allowing or
tolerating the presence and activity of touts and agents
11) Interacting with a
known tout and agent
12) Entering into
dealings with touts and agents
13) Actual acceptance of
bribe of Rs _________, or favours in kind.
14) Deliberate
misguiding, stonewalling, denying information etc.
15) Abuse of authority /
discretionary powers
16) Selectively
performing official duties e.g. Giving benefits to some, and withholding from
others without satisfactory reason
17) Refusal or undue
delay to accept and acknowledge Complaint.
18) Non-responsiveness
and Inaction e.g. not issuing timely notice based on Complaint.
19) Refusal to hold
timely quasi-judicial hearings, or undue delay in holding hearings.
20) Refusal or undue
delay in passing quasi-judicial Orders.
21) Implied favour /
implied threat e.g. Boasting about one’s discretionary powers to put your case
forward or behind on a cause-list for hearing.
22) Offering
privileged information to private party.
23) Token actions
designed to fail e.g. issuing notice but taking follow-up action
24) Time wasting tactics
to allow a statute of limitations to lapse due to inaction
25) Denial of routine
information on status of Complaint, number on cause-list etc
26) Amassing Wealth /
Possessing Disproportionate Assets to known sources of income
27) Benami ownership of
disproportionate assets or businesses in the names of wife, son, driver,
gardener, distant relatives etc.
28) Influence-peddling or
influence-trading, acting as a tout or middleman on behalf of higher-ups etc.
29) Cultivating and
entertaining influence-peddlers and middlemen
30) Ownership /
Partnership of private business
31) Undue use of public
office for private gains
32) Misuse of
subordinates & office colleagues for private gains
33) Misuse of official
contacts for private gains
34) Misuse of privileged
official information for private gains
35) Other activities
amounting to Conflict of Interest in performance of Official Duties
36) Criminal activities
e.g. threatening, theft of documents, tampering with documents, destroying
material evidence, influencing witnesses etc.
37) Subverting the system
i.e. preventing the office from performing the lawful functions for which it
was created
38) Deliberate failure in
vigilance i.e. passively allowing theft etc.
39) Disobeying Court
Orders in letter and spirit
40) Disobeying orders
from superior officers
41) Disobeying the
mandate of law
42) Sabotage i.e.
Performing official functions in ways that are doomed to ineffectiveness and
failure
43) Conspiracy i.e.
acting in concert with others (colleagues or outsiders) in ways that dilute and
subvert the intent of the official’s actions
44) Using loopholes i.e.
Taking undue advantage of rules, laws and procedures to subvert the proper
functioning of administrative machinery and lawful intent
45) Causing mental &
physical harassment i.e. Mala fidely using authority and administrative
machinery to cause fear, distress, inconvenience, loss of time etc.
46) Targeting and
victimization
47) Selective action with
malafide intent to persecute
48) Suppression of whistle-blower
/ complainant through implied threats
49) Actions that go
beyond the call of one’s official duties and functions
50) Deliberately acting
against public good and causing public harm
51) Breach of trust,
breach of promise
52) Official
action/Inaction allowing private persons to get unlawful benefit of public
resources
53) Deliberate
misinterpretation of laws, rules and official procedures to favour a private
party, or to shield a guilty party
54) Deliberate
misinterpretation of facts
55) Deliberate denial of
justice
56) Bullying tactics,
misuse of authority to cow down and silence
57) Not recording
proceedings and material facts during official hearings
58) Fraud, forgery and
tampering with official documents
59) Being in the company
of private parties, leading to conflict of interest e.g. judges and
quasi-judicial authorities drinking at the same table as the Accused
60) Misuse of government
machinery e.g. use of government premises and government vehicles for private
business
61) Acquiring stakes
(directly or through family members) in private business ventures, land
holdings etc., leading to actual or potential conflict of interest
62) Over-charging
official exchequer e.g. inflating medical bills, petrol bills etc.
63) Misuse of official
privileges e.g. charging relatives phone bills to own account
64) Refusal to relinquish
official premises, official vehicles, etc. even after tenure of office is over
65) Accepting substantial
gifts in cash or kind
66) Purchasing assets
e.g. land and building at a fraction of their true market value at the time of
the purchase, as a way of collecting bribe
67) Selling private
assets e.g. land and building at substantially more than their true value at
the time of the sale, as a way of collecting bribe
68) Entering into
transactions e.g. land and building, shares, in such as way that he derives
benefit from policy decisions of the government
69) Allowing extraneous
considerations to colour ones judgment, influence policy decisions etc.
70) Entering into
transactions or relationships that create a potential conflict of interest and
interfere with the impartial discharge of one’s official duties
71) Creating false
documents e.g. back-dated bills, documents without dates and serial numbers,
etc.
72) Knowingly using false
documents submitted by others e.g. using letters where date is left blank for
the purposes of filling up later
73) Influencing ones
superiors to unduly favour private parties, or to shield the guilty parties
74) Acting as a conduit
for kickbacks and corruption for ones superior officers
75) Misbehaviour and
inappropriate behavior
76) Abetting in
adulteration of goods
77) Abetting in diversion
of goods
78) Abetting in tax
evasion
79) Concealing knowledge
of loss to public goods and exchequer
80) Knowingly accepting
poor quality of work or materials from contractors/suppliers
81) Deliberately allowing
pilferage and theft of public property
82) Knowingly entering
into faulty agreements with contractors/suppliers
83) Deliberate misrepresentation
of one’s official duties and powers, with intent to mislead and profit
84) Driving in a car with
special misleading number plates, or using a misleading visiting card
85) Misuse of power to
conduct raids, search-and-seizure, scrutiny of documents etc. for personal
profits
86) Acting as an agent
for corrupt purposes
87) Abetting in
under-payment or non-payment for public goods
88) Leading to loss to
public exchequer in any way
89) Devising or
interpreting schemes and procedures in ways that gives illegal advantage to
certain private parties
90) Mala fidely
preventing the optimal usage of scarce public resources (like land and water)
in order to give a commercial advantage to private parties (such as land
grabbers, builder lobbies and tanker mafias)
91) Malafidely citing
limitations of jurisdiction to give undue advantages to private parties (e.g.
Railway Police, Police and Municipal corporation not clearing hawkers to sit on railway over bridges,
claiming jurisdiction problems).
