2 convictions in 193 cases of the UR

The Government of the Union has informed Parliament that the compliance address (of) registered 193 cases in the last 10 years against political leaders, of which two cases resulted in convictions. No case has resulted in the acquittal of merits.

The Ministry of Finance made this statement in response to the consultations raised by the CPI (m) Rajya Sabha MP AA Rahim.

Rahim sought to know the number of cases of registered emergencies against parliamentarians and MLA and members of the local administration in the last ten years, along with his party, in terms of states and throughout the year. In response, Pankaj Chaudhary, Minister of State for the Ministry of Finance, declared that the data of the cases of registered against MPS, MLA and local administrators along with their party, do not remain in terms of State.

However, a table that contains the details of the cases of cases against the MP, MLA, MLC and existing political leaders and ex and any person affiliated with any political party during the last 10 years was provided.

Cases against parliamentarians, MLA and political leaders

Total period of time

01.04.2015 – 31.03.2016 10

01.04.2016 – 31.03.2017 14

01.04.2017 – 31.03.2018 07

01.04.2018 – 31.03.2019 11

01.04.2019 – 31.03.2020 26

01.04.2020 – 31.03.2021 27

01.04.2021 – 31.03.2022 26

01.04.2022 – 31.03.2023 32

01.04.2023 – 31.03.2024 27

01.04.2024 – 28.02.2025 13

Total 193

As can be seen in the data, there was an outbreak in the number of cases of during the 2019-2024 period, with the largest number of cases (32) presented in the 2023-204 period.

The minister replied that two sentences have been secured in these cases, one in the period 2016-2017 and 2019-2020.

To the MP consultation “if there has been an increase in cases of opposition leaders in recent years, and if so, the justification of this trend,” the minister replied that such information has not been maintained.

The Supreme Court, on many occasions, has commented on the low condemnation rates in cases of money laundering. Last November, while listening to the TMC bail statement MLA Partha Chatterjee, the court He had commented orally that the ED condemnation rate was poor and asked how long a person can be maintained below the conditions. Previously, the court marked That of the 5000 cases presented by the Emergency Department in the last ten years, only 40 convictions were secured and asked ED to focus on quality prosecution.

In it The trial was approved in it Arvind Kejriwal Case, the court had observed that the data on PMLA and arrest complaints “raised a series of questions” and emphasized the need to have a uniform policy on arrests.

In December 2024, the Government of the Union informed The Parliament that of the prosecution complaints of the 911 presented in cases registered by the Compliance Directorate (“ed”) for the crime of money laundering during the last five years between 01.01.2019 and 31.10.2024, the trials were completed in 654 cases and could ensure a conviction in 42 cases. that is, 6.42%conviction rate.

Responding to Rahim’s consultation if the Government has undertaken any reform to improve the transparency and efficiency of the investigations of De, the minister replied:

“The Control Directorate (ED) is a main agency to apply the Law of the Government of India that has been trusted before the administration and application of the Law on the Prevention of the Money Allantation, 2002 (PMLA), the Law of Management of Currencies, 1999 (FEMA) and the Law of Fugitives Economic Criminals, 2018 (FEOA). the political cases of the Afiliosas in the Afils of the political cases and the cases of Afiliosa in the political cases based on the cases of the investigation.

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