Highest corruption in police and revenue, officers targeted by vigilance (Photo: Jagran)
State Bureau, Chandigarh. Maximum corruption has been found in police and revenue departments in Haryana. The State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau registered a total of 251 cases related to corruption this year. These include 147 trap/raid cases, which is the highest in the last 10 years.
A total of 186 accused have been arrested and more than Rs 1 crore have been recovered from the spot. The arrested accused include 13 gazetted officers, 150 employees and 23 middlemen. On an average, about 13 government employees were arrested for corruption every month.
State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau chief Ajay Singhal said that complaints related to corruption can be lodged on toll free numbers 1800-180-2022, 1064 and WhatsApp number 94178-91064. This year, 147 cases were registered through trap/raid and 104 cases were registered on the basis of investigation and special investigation.
Instead of taking action limited to the grassroots level, the focus has been on senior officials who operate networks of organized corruption. The departments against which action was taken include 44 accused from Police Department, 24 from Revenue Department, 9 from Urban Local Body, seven from Electricity Department, seven from Food and Supplies Department, six from Development and Panchayat Department, five from Excise and Taxation and five from Town and Country Planning.
Similarly, corruption action was taken against three each of Cooperative, Irrigation and Transport Department, two each of Education, Panchayati Raj, Public Health Engineering, Food and Drug Administration, Health, Higher Education and Home Guards and a total of 15 officers/employees of HSIIDC, Housing Board, HSVP, Labour, Treasury and Accounts, Justice, Election, ESIC, Forest, Haryana State Pollution Control Board, Khadi and Village Industries Board, PWD, Railways, Women and Child Development. Is.
The Bureau registered 123 preliminary inquiries, which include one IAS, three HCS, one HPS officer, four tehsildars, two naib tehsildars, one chief engineer, seven executive engineers, eight SDOs and three district town planners.
Of these, 109 investigations were disposed of. In 24 cases, it was recommended to register criminal cases against 39 gazetted officers, 30 employees and 21 private individuals, in 20 cases departmental action was recommended and in five cases departmental action along with criminal case was recommended.
A special 48-hour statewide campaign ‘Operation Chase’ was launched on 26-27 December against the accused who had been absconding for a long time in corruption cases. During this period, 28 accused who were absconding in the cases registered between 2020 and 2025 were arrested.
A total of 63 special technical investigations/special checking were conducted, in which action was recommended against 192 officers and employees on the basis of irregularities and recovery of Rs 7 crore was proposed.