India, Feb. 9 -- At least 403 corruption cases are pending prosecution sanction from the Rajasthan government since 2022, despite the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) catching 45% of the accused red-handed, according to data presented during the ongoing state assembly session.

In response to Malviya Nagar member of the legislative assembly (MLA) Kali Charan Saraf's question, the ACB revealed that between 2022 and 2024, it filed 1,592 applications seeking prosecution approval for corrupt officials. However, 403 of these cases are still pending, including 183 where the accused were caught red-handed, read the classification of the data

According to the section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act 1988 (as amended in 2018), the ACB requ...