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India's war against corruption lacks any 'conviction': Study -Himanshi Dhawan

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: India appears to be fighting a losing battle against corruption. Not only the number of corruption cases registered stand at an abysmal 0.06% of total crime in the last 15 years, five states including West Bengal have not registered a single conviction. Trial has been completed only in half the cases and three states including Goa have a record of 100% acquittal.

These are just some of the findings of a study by Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) based on NCRB data over 2001-2015. Analysis of NCRB data, between 2001-2015 shows that a total of 54,139 corruption cases as compared to a total of 9.11 crore offences registered across the 29 States and seven Union Territories (UTs). Incidentally, during this period people filed more than double that number (1,16,010) of reports about being required to pay bribes, on the popular website - I Paid a Bribe.

While 54,139 cases registered across the 29 States and seven UTs trial was completed in 55.26% (29,920 cases). In other cases the accused were discharged or the FIR was quashed or the case was simply not put up for trial or the trial was still going on.

Shockingly, despite several cases going up for trial no convictions have been reported from states such as West Bengal, Goa, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Meghalaya. In Manipur only one case is said to have reached conviction during this 15-year period. CHRI report said that Kerala clocked the highest conviction rate among states that registered a large number of cases as a proportion of cases sent up for trial at 62.95%.

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