The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has startled many with its pro-active move of nabbing corrupt officials without waiting for complaints. It is almost a dream sequence for the Indian people who are practically inured to the idea of those in power getting away with corruption. With regular doses of news about corruption indices and India’s ranking on global scales of graft, it is not really a surprise that so many have been swept up in the net by the ACB. Neither are the posts held by the officials nabbed, surprising.

The modus operandi of the ACB, too, reads like an edge-of-the-seat thriller movie or TV serial, as we read about plainclothes cops hanging around, eavesdropping and picking up on instances of bribery, then swooping down and catching the culprits in the act.