Revenue, Land Records, Registration: Govt departments in Maharashtra with highest number of anti-corruption cases in 2025
The Police Department came second with 105 officials being booked in corruption cases; of these, 99 are Class III officers, while four are Class I officers.
The ACB remand plea said that there was 'active participation' of the judge in the alleged offence and a probe with him was necessary and the Bombay High Court was approached for necessary permissions as per procedure. (File Photo)
Even as the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), in a rare instance, named a judge an accused in a bribery case earlier this week, the latest data by ACB revealed that the Revenue, Land Records, Registration, and Police departments topped the chart with the largest number of officials caught accepting bribes.
As per the data from January 1 to November 11, 155 officers from the Revenue, Land Records, and Registration departments were allegedly caught red-handed accepting bribes in various traps laid by the ACB. Of these, the majority (136) are non-gazetted mid-level government employees falling under Class III officers, while seven of them are gazetted Class 1 officers, the data said.
The Police Department came second with 105 officials being booked in corruption cases; of these, 99 are Class III officers, while four are Class I officers.
Panchayat Samiti, with 60 officers being trapped while accepting bribes during the period, came third, followed by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company with 41 of its officers being caught red-handed, allegedly while accepting bribes.
An ACB officer said that usually departments like Revenue, Land Records, and Police have constant interactions with a larger number of people and hence they figured in the list, as against other departments that have interactions with only a limited set of people, like contractors.
“In terms of revenue, land records and police, these are citizen-facing departments and are frequented by citizens which provides corrupt officials a chance to demand money to get their work done. There is increased vigilance among people who, instead of getting arm-twisted, approach ACB, following which traps are carried out,” said an ACB officer.
The Mumbai ACB named a serving additional sessions judge as a wanted accused in a corruption case on Tuesday, hours after arresting his clerk-cum-typist, who was allegedly caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh at a coffee shop.
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The alleged bribe was in lieu of passing a judgment favourable to a party that had approached the civil court to seek redressal of a dispute regarding a plot of land valued at around Rs 10 crore.
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