The State Vigilance has registered 1,954 cases against 348 Class-I officers, 339 Class-II officers, 1,747 Class-III employees and 285 other public servants, totalling 2,772 persons in 29 different departments during the last five years. Out of these cases, 46 have been disposed of in the Vigilance courts.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress MlA Anshuman Mohanty on Monday.
Patnaik said as many as 15 Vigilance courts including two special courts under the Odisha Special Courts Act, 2006 were established for speedy disposal of cases in Vigilance courts. The Government has also notified four new Vigilance courts i.e, one each at Dhenkanal, Angul, Sundargarh and a second court at Cuttack which are likely to be functional soon, he added.
He also said prior to 2007 there were only four Vigilance courts in the State. In order to expedite trial of Vigilance cases, Government has established 11 more Vigilance courts till July, 2013 after which there has been perceptible improvement in the trial and disposal of Vigilance cases.