Time To Blow The Whistle

The whistleblowing law and mechanism pushes vigilant individuals to "See the evil, hear the evil and expose the evil", writes Zerick Dastur

Lord Gautam Buddha once said that "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth". It is in this context that the law and regulation dealing with the concept of whistleblowing becomes important. The legislative objects and the purpose of this law are two fold. First, to provide with an access mechanism and a structured system for people to come forward and make disclosures of wrongdoing and secondly, to provide for adequate safeguards against victimization of people who do exhibit the courage to come forward and expose the wrongdoing. It can therefore be said that the law dealing with whistleblowing is both a sword and a shield. It provides for tools to combat wrongdoing by means of timely disclosures and at the same time seeks to protect and ensure the wellbeing of those who take recourse to the mechanism