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Lokpal status 2025
January 24 , 2025
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- Twelve years since the Lokpal Act was passed and five years after Lokpal started to function, it has ordered investigation in just 24 cases and granted prosecution sanction in six cases.
- The Lokpal has rejected a large number of complaints, nearly 90%, over the last five years as they were not in the correct format.
- At least 2,320 “defect-free” complaints were registered with the Lokpal in the past five years, with 226 complaints lodged from April 1 to December 2024.
- Of the total complaints, 3% were against Prime Minister/Member of Parliament/ Union Minister and 21% complaints were against Group A, B, C or D officials of the Central government.
- 35% complaints against chairperson or members in Central government bodies, and 41% were against those in the “Others” category, which includes the State government officials.
- As per Section 53 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013, a complaint can be entertained only if it filed within a period of seven years from the date of the alleged offence.
- Though the Lokpal Act was passed in 2013, the country’s first Lokpal, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh, was appointed on March 19, 2019, along with eight other members.
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