Atul Kumar is an engineer, a postgraduate from IIT Madras. He served the Indian Railways as a Class I officer from 1981 to 2011 before taking voluntary retirement. While in service, he was instrumental in exposing leakage of approximately Rs 5000 crores per year through cartels in Railway procurement. As a consequence, he was awarded ‘S R Jindal Prize 2011 for crusade against corruption’ at the national level. Later on, this leakage was also confirmed by the Metro Man, Mr. E. Sreedharan in a report. Atul Kumar also suggested ways and means to control the leakage before opting for retirement.
Atul Kumar is also an awarded poet in Hindi. Many of his poetry books have been published. About a decade ago, after retirement, Atul Kumar exposed the ball-by-ball institutionalised fixing in Cricket through his books and press conferences etc. He brought out the vast implications of this open massive international fraud, while proving the same mathematically also in 2013. Many public exposures from many corners thereafter during the last decade have also been confirming everything said by him. In his bid to bring it to an end, he also knocked the doors of the Supreme Court of India in the year 2017. During the last decade, his many books on the subject have been published in English and Hindi. These books detail the continuing massive fraud and its very serious financial and other implications through sound logic and detailed documentation.