₹10 lakh. Every year, the police department manages to dispose of nearly half of the economic offence cases at its desk.
However, an influx of a similar number of new cases means that the pile of files awaiting investigation has kept growing. In 2022, out of all cases that were pending from earlier and the new ones that got added, police were able to file a chargesheet in only 25% and could unload only an additional 22% by filing a final report.
At the legal stage, the process was even tardier. Around 95% of all cases awaiting trial at the beginning of the year were carried forward; the courts declared verdicts in only 4% of these.
. Read more on livemint.com