IFS Sanjeev Chaturvedi moves SC seeking framework to protect whistleblowers

Indian Forest Service officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi, a Magsaysay Award winner, has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking protection for whistleblowers and guidelines to address the lack of a functioning Whistleblowers Protection Act, 2014. Chaturvedi, who has exposed corruption cases in the past, alleges that the absence of a protective framework leaves whistleblowers vulnerable to institutional persecution.

The Whistleblowers Protection Act was enacted in 2014 but has yet to be operationalised due to the lack of a notification from the central government. Chaturvedi argues that this systemic vacuum enables perpetrators of corruption to act with impunity. He seeks the court's intervention to frame and issue interim guidelines to bridge the constitutional and statutory vacuum.