Corruption Charges

Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)  has informed that the details of complaints received in CVC, under PIDPI or otherwise, having specific and verifiable allegations of vigilance nature/offences of corruption against various Central Government officials including officials of appropriate levels serving in CPSUs, PSBs, PSICs, Societies and other local authorities owned or controlled by the Central Government are as follows:

Year 2015 2016 2017
No. of cases 259 177 291

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has informed that number of cases registered under PC Act against Central Government employees are as follows:

Year 2015 2016 2017 2018

(up to 30.11.2018)

No. of cases 441 400 338 206

CVC has informed that the complaints in which specific and verifiable allegations of vigilance nature/offences of corruption have been leveled against the officials have been forwarded to CVO/CBI to conduct inquiry/investigation into the matter.

CBI has informed that the following action has been taken on the cases registered under PC Act till date:-

Year No. of cases charge-sheeted No. of cases sent for RDA No. of cases sent for such action as appropriate
2015 361 22 4
2016 272 31 6
2017 168 10 0
2018

(upto 30.11.18)

045 02 0

This information was provided by the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

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