As per NCRB report, corruption cases in Telangana show dip in 2021

Is corruption on the decrease  in Telangana? This is not a claim by the State government, but what the National Crime Records Bureau, which functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has indicated in its ‘Crime in India’ report for 2021.

From 177 cases in 2019, cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and related sections of the Indian Penal Code in the State dipped to 84 in 2020 and 83 in 2021.

This was when several other States reported a rise in corruption cases. Karnataka, for instance, saw the cases shoot up from 296 in 2020 to 360 in 2021. Madhya Pradesh saw the number go up from 151 to 250 in the same period, while Maharashtra saw cases rise from 664 to 773. Rajasthan had the number soaring from 363 in 2020 to 501 in 2021, while Tamil Nadu saw 304 cases in 2020 and 423 in 2021.

The 83 cases in Telangana in 2021 included 74 trap cases, registered either by the Anti-Corruption



Bureau, Vigilance or the Lok Ayukta, apart from two disproportionate asset cases and seven cases of criminal misconduct.

As for police disposal of corruption cases, there were 411 cases pending investigation from 2020, while the cases in which the final report was submitted in 2021 was one. At the same time, the police submitted charge-sheets in 140 cases, with the cases pending by the end of 2021 being 353.

Moving on to the courts, which had 797 pending trial from the previous year, 2021 had a total of 937 cases for trial, of which 13 were abated by the court, 21 stayed by the court, and 20 disposed of. Six cases saw conviction, one saw acquittal, with the cases pending trial by the end of 2021 being 917. The conviction rate was 85.7 per cent.

Those arrested on corruption charges were 124, while 169 persons were charge-sheeted and seven convicted. One person was dismissed from service, while one was imprisoned.