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| Accelerate pace of investigation in corruption cases: CS | | State Vigilance Organization reviews meeting | | JAMMU, Jan 9 : Chief Secretary Madhav Lal has directed the State Vigilance Organization to increase the pace of investigation and bring out department wise patterns of misconducts/corruption for effective supervision.
Chief Secretary Wednesday took a review of the functioning and performance of the State Vigilance Organization in a meeting which was attended by the Vigilance Commissioner SVO, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Secretary, General Administrative Department (GAD) and other officers.
Department wise status of corruption cases was discussed and the performance of SVO, on such parameters as number of Preliminary enquiries pending, number of FIRs registered, number of cases pending in courts; and conviction rate in the courts, was reviewed. It was informed by SVO that a total of 507 cases were pending trial in the various courts of Anti-Corruption in the State, whereas 131 cases were pending investigation till date. In about 60 cases, the accused officials were held guilty in last seven years. There was no pendency on part of the State Government regarding the cases referred by SVO for grant of Prosecution Sanction.The Chief Secretary laid emphasis on streamlining the process of Vigilance clearances and the pace and manner of the departmental inquiries being conducted by various departments.
Various proposals for effective conduct of departmental inquiries were also discussed and GAD was asked to issue the instructions separately. |
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