Action against Corrupt Public Servants by ACB, Maharashtra

from January 2014 to July 2015

Cases Registered till date 12/07/2015

• Total Trap money is 4,03,94,723 • Total property involved in DPA cases 1,42,56,32,341

Victims (Category wise)

2% 1% 3% 7%

2%

85%

Senior Citizen 42

Disabled 15

Women 53

S.C 130

S.T 39

Others 1620

Accused Profession wise

1% 4% 2%1%

18%

1%

8%

65%

Doctor - 41

Engineer - 119

Teacher - 56

Advocate - 17

Police - 549

Sarpanch/Upasarpanch - 25

Corporator/Mayor - 12

Chairman - 6

Sabhapati- 6

Talathi - 237

Others - 2004

Accused Male/Female

7%

93%

Female Accused 205

Male Accused 2532

Complainant Age wise

10%

35%29%

21%

4%

Less than 25 years(10%) (196)

Age between 26 to 35 years (35%) (681)

Age between 36 to 45 years (29%) (545)

Age between 46 to 60 years (21%) (397)

More than 60 years (4%) (80)

Accused class wise

6% 11%

61%

4%

6%

13% Class-1 (150) including IFoS(1)

Class-2 (274)

Class-3 (1530)

Class-4 (89)

Other Public servant- (160)

Private Persons (318)

Accused Department wise

Accused0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

640

597

317

177

118

81104

30 25 26 26 20 2345 35 35

11 12

199

Revenue Department Home Department Rural Development DepartmentUrban Development Department Education Department Health DepartmentMSEDCL Irrigation Department State Excise DepartmentRTO PWD Sales Tax DepartmentLaw and Judiciary Department Forest Department Cooperative, Marketing and TextileAgriculture MHADA Woman and Child DevelopmentOther

Region wise Traps

Trap Complaints0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

116

234

338

307

245

203

256

200

Mumbai-116

Thane -234

Pune-338

Nashik-307

Nagpur-245

Amravati-203

Aurangabad-256

Nanded-200

Profession wise accused

Department wise persons involved in Disproportionate Assets Cases

Traps in welfare Schemes

Traps in welfare Schemes

Traps in welfare Schemes

• Contact ACB by using -

• Mobile App :- www.acbmaharashtra.net

•Toll Free No. 1064

ACB coordinates-

•E mail id : acbwebmail@mahapolice.gov.in

• You can also lodge online complaint on official websitewww.acbmaharashtra.gov.in & on official face book page www.facebook.com/MaharashtraACB

DOs and DON’Ts

•Don’t ever pay bribe immediately as demanded by the government officer or the middleman.

•Ask him to give you ample time for arrangement of money.

• Just do the very first thing to contact ACB on toll free number 1064.

•Don’t discuss with anyone that you are going to lay a ACB trap.

•Don’t enter into fight with the person asking for money.

Things to remember

• Name and designation of the person asking for money.

• whether he is a government servant or tout?

•The amount he is asking is not a legal fee and you are not getting it’s receipt.

Make sure that-

•Bribe means any remuneration demanded to you for doing your work or after the work is done.

•The amount does not entitle to legal fee.

•Don’t ever think that Bribe can be demanded only in form of money. Bribe can be demanded in form of any valuable thing also

What is bribe

•For favoring you to get your legal work done.

•(Bribe can be demanded by an act of commission or omission.)

•To influence public servant for doing your work.

•As a reward for your work has been done.

Bribe can be demanded for

•For not doing any official act.

Bribe can be demanded by

•A public servant.

•A person expecting to be a public servant.

•Middleman, agent or tout.

Offences related to ACB

•Demand of bribe.

•Acceptance of bribe.

•Abetment for demanding or accepting bribe.

• Obtaining pecuniary advantage by abusing of official position.

•Holding property which is disproportionate to his known and legal income sources.

Other actions by ACB against corrupt public servant?

•ACB could make enquiry and register an offence against a government servant, whose property is disproportionate to his legal source of income.

•If you know the details of property of any corrupt public servant you may inform ACB about it.

• If you are aware of some illegal corrupt practices of any government office you may inform ACB about that also.

Some important sections of Prevention of Corruption Act,1988.

• Sec.7- Demand & acceptance of bribe.• Sec.8-Touting- Receiving bribe to influence public servant by

illegal acts and get the work done.• Sec.9-Middleman- Receiving bribe by exercise of personal

influence with public servant to get the work done.• Sec.10-Abetment to Sec. 9 & 10 (Demanding or receiving bribe

through touts and middleman)• Sec.11- receiving valuable things free of cost or for nominal cost.• Sec.12-Abetment to sec.7 & 11.(Bribe giving)• Sec.13(1)(d)-Dishonest misuse of office post/facilities causing

loss to govt. or gain to public servant or other person.• Sec.13(1)(d)-Assets expenditure much more than lawful income

or possession of disproportionate assets.

‘REVERSE TRAP’

• ‘To accept and to pay bribe- both are crime’

•If you are a government servant and somebody is offering bribe to you, you may make a complaint against him to ACB.

Dos & Don’ts for Reverse Trap

•Don’t get angry with the person and debate with him who is offering you money.

• Ask him to let you think about the offer.

•Contact ACB immediately.

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