Freedom fighters · Whistleblowers · 1978–2005
Manjunath Shanmugam
IOC sales manager who fought petrol adulteration mafias in Uttar Pradesh. Shot dead in 2005 for refusing to look away.
Shanmugam sealed pumps selling adulterated fuel. The mafia answered with bullets. Courts later convicted killers. Honesty at a petrol pump became a national story.
Why on this wall
Young officer who chose integrity over survival against fuel fraud.