The Sunday Standard (Delhi) reported on 13 May 1962 that there were 551 cases of corruption detected in 1956, which increased to 1,127 in 1961. The news item stated: ‘If the welfare state is not to be equated with “licence and permit raj” (as Mr Rajgopalachari does), stringent steps must be taken to root out corruption and to restore the probity of administration… Everybody is agreed that the present legal provisions leave too many loopholes to the corrupt officials to defeat the hands of justice.’ (Parthasarathi 1989; p.503)
