According to the data, the ACB's Mumbai unit received 2,407 complaints in 2019, 1,672 in 2020, 3,433 in 2021 and 3,418 till November 2022. Inquiries were ordered in 92 complaints in 2019, 45 in 2020, 93 in 2021 and 46 in 2022 (till November 30).
RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge said the commission is paralysed due to 50% vacancy of staff, and only 3 courtrooms for the entire state is adding fuel to fire. The Maharashtra government should urgently fill up all the vacant posts and double the strength of the court so that justice is served to the victims of human rights violations
The ‘Report Card on the Performance of Information Commissions in India’, which was published in 2021, revealed that Maharashtra’s state information commission (SIC) registered the highest number of second appeals and complaints to the tune of 41,978, which moved up to 87,577 cases later that year and has now disastrously spiked to 1,00,43 lakh.