Declaration of assets: some doubts and their answers Patna: among all the grouches and protests against the new practice of asset declaration by the Bihar government, only two have emerged as the most non-trivial. First, the fear that criminals with armed with information on the assets of an individual official may target her or him for levies, kidnapping etc. Prima facie, this fear seems quite legitimate, especially for the middle and lower level officials who often travel in the interior or have their postings in far flung areas where the police cannot reach promptly enough. This also seems...