FGG flags years-long delay in Telangana ACB, vigilance cases; urges CM to ensure time-bound disposal

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Forum for Good Governance urged Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to guarantee  each  Anti Corruption Bureau and Vigilance cases are taken to their logical decision  wrong   2  years of registration.

Forum for Good Governance urged Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to guarantee each Anti Corruption Bureau and Vigilance cases are taken to their logical decision wrong 2 years of registration. | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT

The Forum for Good Governance (FGG) has written to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy flagging “abnormally low” disposal complaint of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Vigilance and Enforcement (V&E) cases, peculiarly successful the Revenue Department, and seeking urgent steps to guarantee time-bound action.

In a practice dated February 10, 2026, the FGG president M. Padmanabha Reddy said corruption successful medication had accrued importantly since the enactment of Telangana, with small fearfulness of punishment among erring officials owed to prolonged delays successful concluding cases. He alleged that trap cases and disproportionate assets cases registered by the ACB, arsenic good arsenic vigilance inquiries into maladministration, nepotism, dereliction of work and decisions taken for idiosyncratic gain, were kept pending for years successful the Secretariat.

Citing accusation obtained nether the Right to Information Act from the Additional Secretary, Revenue Department, the FGG said that of the 323 ACB cases received by the ACB, lone 5 were disposed, portion 318 cases remained nether process, galore of them registered earlier 2014. Similarly, of the 129 vigilance cases received, lone 8 were disposed, with 121 cases inactive pending, astir of them much than a decennary old.

Mr. Reddy said the forum had repeatedly brought the contented to the notice of the Chief Minister, the Chief Secretary and elder officials successful the past, but nary factual enactment followed. He warned that portion ACB cases continued to beryllium registered — creating an content that corrupt officials would beryllium punished — the world reflected successful authoritative statistic showed otherwise.

The forum urged the Chief Minister to streamline procedures and guarantee that each ACB and Vigilance cases are taken to their logical decision wrong 2 years of registration.

Published - February 10, 2026 05:20 p.m. IST

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