51 per cent increase in cases booked by DVAC in 2017

The DVAC investigators were actually snooping around with more number of cases when compared to the previous year. The state DVAC which was on slow track till the year-end 2016, had registered over 257 cases across the state in the year 2017, registering an increase of 51 per cent compared to the number of cases registered in the previous year. 

DVAC process of registering cases is different from that of regular police units. “We need to conduct a preliminary inquiry and a detailed inquiry into the complaints before registering the case. Many complaints will be discarded after preliminary inquiry. 

Only after doing a detailed inquiry we will register cases,” a DVAC official noted.  In   the year 2016, the DVAC conducted a total of 436 preliminary inquiries. And only 88 went to the second stage of detailed inquiry in that year. 

In that year DVAC had registered a total of 170 cases, including traps – the process of catching bribe taking officials red handed. In the year 2017, the DVAC had taken up 460 complaints for preliminary inquiry. Of the 460, only 116 went to the second stage of detailed inquiry. And finally the directorate ended up in registering a total of 257 cases, including traps.