Prithviraj Chavan set on sanction requests in 76 corruption cases

For all the noise that former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made before the Assembly elections about his desire to crack down on corruption, it has emerged that his government sat quietly on 76 cases of graft, mostly against its own senior officials, breaching its own deadline and delaying permission for investigators to initiate action.

The beneficiaries of this silence include former ministers such as NCP’s Chhagan Bhujbal, legislators, and IAS, IPS and IFS officials. These cases will now pose the first big challenge for the incoming BJP-led government and its anti-corruption agenda. “The new government would have to deal with these cases almost immediately,” a senior state government official told The Indian Express.

Admitting that the government should not have flouted its own norm, senior Congress leader Naseem Khan, who was a minister in the Chavan Cabinet, attributed the delay to “some technical and legal reasons”. Khan, however, admitted that the “negative peception” about the previous Congress-NCP government on issues related to corruption was a reason for its defeat in the recent elections.



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