J. N. Jayashree is an Indian

whistle blower Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, unethical or ...

, a housewife who reported on corruption in

Karnataka Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...

state and created a

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to protect her husband, M. N. Vijayakumar, a worker employed by the state. The latter had accused government officials of taking bribes and kickbacks and engaging in "garden-variety pilferage."Anand Giridharadas, "In India, Protecting a Whistle-Blower," ''New York Times,'' 5 July 2007
/ref> The wiki was created to generate awareness, Jayashree said she didn't want her husband to end up like

Shanmughan Manjunath Shanmugam Manjunath (23 February 1978 – 19 November 2005) was a sales officer (grade A officer) for the Indian Oil Corporation who was murdered for sealing a corrupt petrol station in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. This incident inspired seve ...

Satyendra Dubey Satyendra Dubey (27 November 1973 – 27 November 2003) was an Indian Engineering Service (IES) officer. He was the Project Director in the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at Koderma, Jharkhand. He was murdered in Gaya, Bihar, all ...

, who were found dead after they reported on corruption in a public company and a government department, respectively.

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External links

Fight Corruption Wiki
created by Jayashree * Podbharti podcast featuring a
interview with Jayashree
(in Hindi). Indian whistleblowers Living people Activists from Karnataka Women from Karnataka Indian women activists Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-activist-stub