New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has filed a PIL in Supreme Court (SC) seeking a special anti-corruption court in every district that can take up cases related to economic offenses like money laundering and tax evasion within one year.
Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay also sought directions to high courts (HC) to take necessary actions in cases related to economic offenses.
The request has made the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Law and Justice, and different States and Union Territories parties for the situation.
The PIL, filed through backer Ashwani Kumar Dubey, fought that because of long pendency and ineffectual anti-corruption laws, India has never been positioned among the main 50 in the Corruption Perception Index. The Centre and State governments have additionally not made suitable strides in such a manner, the request said.
The petition further said that no welfare schemes and government departments are corruption-free. “Due to long pendency and ineffective anti-corruption laws, even after 73 years of independence and 70 years after becoming a socialist secular democratic republic, none of our districts are free from cases related to black money, Benami property, disproportionate assets, bribery, money laundering, tax evasion, and similar other economic offenses, the petition said, quoted The Hindu.
The petition further said that anti-corruption laws in India are very weak and have no strong effect and fail to control corruption in the country, and the Benami Transactions Act, passed in 1988, is gathering dust without action.