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Former Patna DM Gautam Goswami dies at 41

Later,that year,Time magazine picked him as one of its Asian Heroes. As the District Magistrate in Patna,Goswami coordinated a massive relief effort that involved the Indian Government,Army and international aid agencies. At 4:30 each morning,Goswami was at Patnas airport hangar,seeing off helicopters loaded with food,drinking water,tents and medical supplies; then he made sure truck convoys headed off to areas that could be reached by land, wrote Aravind Adiga,then the magazines India correspondent,in a special issue.

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Later,an Indian Express investigationfor which it won the International Press Institute award for journalismfound that Goswami allegedly diverted Rs 17.8 crore meant for flood relief to a fictitious entity,Baba Satya Sai Industries. A Vigilance inquiry was ordered and Goswami resigned from the IAS and joined the Sahara Group. When the Special Vigilance Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea and the Sahara group sacked him from the post of vice-president. Goswami withdrew his resig

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Profile of Gautam Goswami

A flawed genius or hapless victim of an abrasive twist of fate, we will never know now that he is gone. Either way, former Patna district magistrate Gautam Goswami was nothing if not a bright spark of life.

In a State where the steel frame never tires of playing God, Gautam could be childlike in his insecurities. Often, when faced with a tough poser, his response was a tentative "What should I do?"

But he could also be tough-as-nails, as L K Advani will undoubtedly recall. In April 2004, the then Patna DM climbed on to the Lok Sabha poll meeting dais of the BJP leader at Gandhi Maidan here to read the riot code: "Your time is up. You must stop your speech now". An utterly helpless Advani was left with no option other than to adhere to the campaign expiry time.

A native of Dehri-on-Sone in western Bihar, Gautam did his early schooling from Vikas Vidyalaya (Ranchi). A brilliant student, he cleared his MBBS examination with flying colours. Thereafter, he became an all-India rank holder in the Civil Services Main Examination. But the 1991-batch IAS