...but arrested public servants’ figures do not match the 11-year peak in number of cases.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau’s (ACB) data of graft is a mirror of self contradictions. For, while it managed to notch up the highest number of graft cases in the past decade during 2013, it also reveals that the number of apprehended public servants was, however, significantly lower during the same year. The bureau’s data for the past 10 years show that the highest number of arrests took place in 2003.
According to ACB data, the highest number of total cases from 2003-2013 was recorded during 2013. While at 224 this may be the highest number of cases during the decade, it only betters the previous best of 223 in 2010, by a solitary case. The average number of cases per year comes to around 199. Of the 224 graft cases recorded by ACB last year, 207 were traps, 8 were decoys and 9 were disproportionate assets (DA) cases. It is interesting to note that there were no DA cases registered in 2012.
In all these cases, 279 public servants – 62 from the home department – and others were nabbed by the bureau in 2013, much below the annual average of the past decade. This figure is almost one-third of the 867 individuals who were arrested in various cases during 2003, a difference of 588. A majority of them were class-III officers, at 579. As many as 50 of the nabbed public servants in 2013 were assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs), head constables or constables of the police, while 34 were talatis and 21 were non-government employees or middlemen, data states. The total amount of bribes accepted by the 279 individuals amounted to Rs31.23 lakh.
The average figure of people held annually during the 11-year period stands at around 333. Further, annually, close to 15 class-I officers of the state were held by the ACB during 2003-2013. The annual average figures for class-II and class-III officers stood at 35 and 222, respectively.
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