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Savukku ((英語:''whip'')) is an anonymous, non-profit, whistle blowing website. The site publishes articles in Tamil and English. It is known for leaking sensational 2G spectrum scam taped conversation and publishing articles on corrupt government employees, politicians, judges, journalists and socio-political affairs. Even though the website itself does not provide any information on owner(s) or publisher(s), it is believed that it is run by ''‘Savukku’ Shankar'' alias ''Achimuthu Shankar'', a former lower division clerk in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption. On 28 February 2014, it was blocked on Madras High Court orders hearing the writ petition filed a SUN TV employee, Mahalakshmi. ==Overview== The website publishes articles anonymously, they say, about corrupt government employees, politicians, judges and journalists. It was started in September 2010. It does not give any information about the owner(s) or the publisher(s) of posts on website, but is said to have run by Achimuthu Shankar, a former lower division clerk in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption.〔 In 2008, Shankar allegedly leaked the transcript of a taped conversation between S. K. Upadhyay, then director of DVAC, and L. K. Tripathi, then chief secretary of the state to the Deccan Chronicle English daily newspaper. He was found guilty and arrested and was subjected to the third-degree torture and was forced to swear against some officers. After being released on bail, he started collecting information through Right to information act, and later made a blog post to make public the information he has gathered. It allegedly led to the second arrest of Shankar, but on charges of ''road rage''. Thereafter he converted his blog into a website called, ''Savukku'' to expose corruption. The first blog post was published anonymously on the website in September 2010 and it presently has around 960 posts since then including the 2G taped conversation.〔 In 2010-2011, when Aam Aadmi Party leader and senior advocate Prashant Bhushan released the tapes of alleged conversation between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi and the then Tamil Nadu police chief of intelligence, Jaffar Sait, it was said to have made public by the website three days earlier.〔〔 On 1 February 2014, the website had publicly posted four tapes〔 exposing the conversation between Kanimozhi and former additional director general of police Jaffer Sait and between Jaffer Sait and Sharad Kumar Reddy, a former director of Kalaignar TV owned by Karunanidhi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Is Kanimozhi's illness connected to second set of 2G tapes? )〕 The authenticity of the taped conversation has not yet been challenged by either Kanimozhi or Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.〔 The website has been called the Tamil's Wikileaks.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Savukku」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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