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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has flagged “serious lapses” successful implementation of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) successful Odisha.
The CAG has conducted an IT audit of the CCTNS to measure the show and effectiveness of the strategy from its inception (2013) till March 2023. The findings person been published successful CAG’s latest report, which was laid earlier the Assembly connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) evening.
The audit has revealed privateness breaches and lapses successful probe and prosecution, including the mentation of complaint sheets by officers who were not designated arsenic investigating officers (IOs).
There was important power nonaccomplishment successful enforcing chronological sequencing and logical sequencing of actions, resulting successful untenable and illogical signaling of events, specified arsenic registration of FIR anterior to registration of General Diary (GD) entries and signaling of arrests and seizures anterior to signaling of FIRs, it said.
The audit recovered 2,080 instances crossed 217 constabulary stations from 2018 to 2023 wherever complaint sheets were prepared by officers not designated arsenic IOs for the cases successful question.
The CAG besides noticed reporting of 5,566 missing complaints of children beneath 18 years successful the strategy without registration of FIRs, though it was a prerequisite and mandatory.
Despite having provisions successful the strategy for registration and maintenance, 9,642 non-cognisable cases had not been recorded by 29 constabulary stations successful CCTNS, the audit found.
In 1,631 cases astatine 405 constabulary stations, details of women victims and juvenile offenders classified arsenic delicate were disclosed connected the national portal, the study said.
Citing different lawsuit of specified a breach successful the system, the CAG recovered that 368 cases were reported arsenic closed. Of these, 190 cases had been incorrectly reported arsenic closed successful the report, adjacent though the finalised complaint sheets successful these cases had really not been forwarded to the acrophobic court.
