Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh on Tuesday stood up in defence of civil servants against corporatist media houses. "In defence, as well as in others areas, we have had bureaucrats being sent to jail for taking an independent decision, not necessarily on receipt of some money or the other," he said. Singh added that they "have been sent to jail because things have been brought out in the media". "Media pressure has become so much on certain issues, for whatever way it is motivated by the media, people have had to pay the price without actually having taken any money. So those are things that have restricted the flow of the pen of the bureaucracy, so, therefore, they have cocooned themselves, protected themselves. It is not in the best interest of the country," he said while releasing a 10-year IAF plan on indigenisation.