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Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development
20,00,000
(19,89,673) (18,78,293)
19,00,000
(18,22,602)
(18,32,015) 18,00,000 (17,16,120) 17,00,000
LEGENDS
16,00,000 IPC Cases
PC Act Cases
4000 3900 3800 3700 3600 3500 3400 3300
(3835)
(3865)
(4004) (3788)
(3343)
YEAR
2003
Figure 8.1
2004
2005
2006
2007
Crime and corruption cases 2003–2007
corruption cases during the period 2003–2007 the following graphical representation can be seen: From Figure 8.1, it may be seen that while the crime figures are increasing steadily, the cases under the Prevention of Corruption Act are showing a fluctuating trend. While the total number of cases under the PC Act, 1988 decreased from 3,865 in 2003 to 3,343 in 2004, it again increased to 3,835 in 2005 and further to 4,004 in 2006. Again, surprisingly, it decreased to 3,788 in the year 2007. Our study did not reveal any specific reasons for such a fluctuating trend. In fact there could be no reason why corruption cases should have decreased in the year 2007 from the previous year 2006. Table 8.1 shows the number of cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 by the CBI and the States during 2003–2007. It may be seen that the maximum number of cases were registered in 2005 and the least in 2007. But the number of persons arrested during 2007 was the maximum which indicated that more number of corrupt
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