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Madhya Pradesh EOW received 23,261 complaints, filed charge sheets in 9 cases
Madhya Pradesh EOW received 23,261 complaints, filed charge sheets in 9 cases
The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet on August 25 approved an amendment to a 1977 notification, updating the legal framework for the state's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) from the Indian Penal Code to the…
The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet on August 25 approved an amendment to a 1977 notification, updating the legal framework for the state's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) from the Indian Penal Code to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The change is meant to bring the agency in line with the new criminal laws.
Data tabled in the state Assembly shows that between 2020 and June 2026, the EOW received 23,261 complaints. Of these, only 3,018 were formally registered for examination, 258 criminal cases were registered, and charge sheets were filed in just nine cases. Congress MLAs Pratap Grewal and Pankaj Upadhyay questioned the disposal rate and the practice of forwarding complaints back to the department being investigated.
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The core problem exposed by these figures is not a legal framework but institutional capacity and will. Between 2020 and 2025, courts delivered verdicts in 70 EOW cases: 40 convictions and 30 acquittals. The average time from registration to verdict was 13 years and seven months, with one case from 1990 taking 33 years. The BNS upgrade gives the EOW a clean legal slate, but does nothing to fix the funnel where 99.96% of complaints vanish before a charge sheet is filed. The real metric to watch is not the conviction rate, which is 57% once a case reaches court, but the conversion rate from complaint to FIR. That figure is below 3%. Without changes to staffing, investigative protocols, or oversight of how complaints are screened, the legal upgrade alone will not accelerate case disposal.
Source: ndtv.com
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