New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Politicians may be infamous for squatting on Government accommodations in Delhi, but it's the Government employees - mostly retired - who beat the netas hands down when it comes to illegal occupation of official quarters. As many as 575 Government employees, from bureaucrats to beldars, continue to illegally occupy Government quarters.

The highest outstanding dues of Rs 95 lakh for such illegal occupation of Government quarters is in the name of a bureaucrat VP Rao.

Interestingly, even relatives of the babus have been found to be squatting on such premises. There are over 100 houses, where families or relatives of babus continued to occupy Government quarters even after the death of the original allottees. Some of ...