Lok Sabha Question No. 1310 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-08
Subject: Cases filed by ED and Income Tax Department
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Shri  Radhakrishna

## Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1310

TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 08, 2025/ AGRAHAYANA 17, 1947 (SAKA)

## CASES FILED BY ED AND INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT

1310: Shri Radhakrishna:

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of cases filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Income Tax Department (IT) since 2014-15, State and year-wise;
- (b) the  number  of  charge-sheets  filed,  closure  reports  submitted,  investigations completed and those cases where trials have not yet started along with the number of cases resulting in convictions, withdrawn/closed by the agencies since 2014-15, State and year-wise;
- (c) the  number  of  raids  conducted  by  these  agencies  in  connection  with  these cases since 2014-15, State and year-wise; and
- (d) the number of persons who have been involved in these cases, accused, under trial, convicted and acquitted since 2014-15, State and year-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI PANKAJ CHAUDHARY)

(a) to (d):  Since 2014-15, Enforcement Directorate has recorded a total of 6,444 cases (ECIRs) for  initiating  investigation  under  the  Prevention  of  Money-laundering  Act  (PMLA),  2002. Income tax department has filed a total of 13877 prosecution cases.  The year-wise details are given in Annexure I .

The details of the search and seizure actions conducted by the Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax Department during the Years 2014-15 to Year 2025-26 are given in Annexure-II. Further, the details of prosecution matters are given in Annexure-III.

It is further informed that State-wise data is not maintained centrally.

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Details of ECIRs and Prosecution Cases:

| Year-wise   | Number of Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIRs) Recorded   | No. of Prosecution cases filed by ITD   |
|-------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| 2014-15     | 181                                                              | 669                                     |
| 2015-16     | 110                                                              | 552                                     |
| 2016-17     | 187                                                              | 1252                                    |
| 2017-18     | 163                                                              | 4527                                    |
| 2018-19     | 152                                                              | 3512                                    |
| 2019-20     | 557                                                              | 1226                                    |
| 2020-21     | 996                                                              | 173                                     |
| 2021-22     | 1116                                                             | 195                                     |
| 2022-23     | 953                                                              | 387                                     |
| 2023-24     | 698                                                              | 502                                     |
| 2024-25     | 775                                                              | 611                                     |
| 2025-26     | 556 (till November, 2025)                                        | 271 (till September, 2025)              |
| Total       | 6444                                                             | 13877                                   |

Annexure I.

## Details of the search and seizure:

| Year-wise   | Number of Searches conducted by Enforcement Directorate   | No of Group Searched by Income Tax Department   |
|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| 2014-15     | 46                                                        | 545                                             |
| 2015-16     | 83                                                        | 447                                             |
| 2016-17     | 170                                                       | 1152                                            |
| 2017-18     | 367                                                       | 582                                             |
| 2018-19     | 205                                                       | 966                                             |
| 2019-20     | 324                                                       | 984                                             |
| 2020-21     | 535                                                       | 569                                             |
| 2021-22     | 751                                                       | 686                                             |
| 2022-23     | 1441                                                      | 741                                             |
| 2023-24     | 2600                                                      | 1166                                            |
| 2024-25     | 2317                                                      | 1437                                            |
| 2025-26     | 2267 (till November, 2025)                                | 382 (till September, 2025)                      |
| Total       | 11106                                                     | 9657                                            |

## Enforcement Directorate:

| Year-wise                     | No. of Prosecution Complaints filed + Supplementary PCs filed   | Number of persons/entities against whom PCs/SPCs has been filed   |
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 2014-15                       | 64+4                                                            | 438+19                                                            |
| 2015-16                       | 57+11                                                           | 351+55                                                            |
| 2016-17                       | 99+11                                                           | 513+44                                                            |
| 2017-18                       | 92+19                                                           | 513+281                                                           |
| 2018-19                       | 234+59                                                          | 1147+312                                                          |
| 2019-20                       | 55+28                                                           | 474+115                                                           |
| 2020-21                       | 140+39                                                          | 1188+164                                                          |
| 2021-22                       | 128+46                                                          | 876+200                                                           |
| 2022-23                       | 172+61                                                          | 1338+363                                                          |
| 2023-24                       | 281+100                                                         | 2789+528                                                          |
| 2024-25                       | 333+124                                                         | 2067+821                                                          |
| 2025-26 (till November, 2025) | 188+71                                                          | 1418+390                                                          |
| Total                         | 1843+573=2416                                                   | 13112+3292=16404                                                  |

During the period from 01.04.2014 to 30.11.2025, the Special Courts of PMLA have delivered judgments on merits on the issue of Money-Laundering in 56 instances, out of which conviction orders have been passed in 53 instances convicting 121 accused. Accordingly, the conviction rate, i.e., total number of cases in which accused have been convicted as a percentage of total cases decided on merits on the issue of money laundering is 53/56*100=94.64% during the period 01.04.2014 to 30.11.2025.

## Income Tax Department:

| F.Y.                      |   No. of Prosecution cases filed |   No. of cases convicted | No. of cases acquitted   | No. of cases withdrawn   |
|---------------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| 2014-15                   |                              669 |                       34 | NA*                      | NA*                      |
| 2015-16                   |                              552 |                       28 | 18                       | 120                      |
| 2016-17                   |                             1252 |                       16 | 27                       | 93                       |
| 2017-18                   |                             4527 |                       68 | 33                       | 130                      |
| 2018-19                   |                             3512 |                      105 | 49                       | 399                      |
| 2019-20                   |                             1226 |                       49 | 98                       | 260                      |
| 2020-21                   |                              173 |                       16 | 53                       | 197                      |
| 2021-22                   |                              195 |                       11 | 47                       | 495                      |
| 2022-23                   |                              387 |                       69 | 130                      | 567                      |
| 2023-24                   |                              502 |                       35 | 183                      | 351                      |
| 2024-25                   |                              611 |                       71 | 201                      | 561                      |
| 2025-26 (as on 30.09.2025 |                              271 |                       20 | 124                      | 172                      |

| F.Y.   |   No. of Prosecution cases filed |   No. of cases convicted |   No. of cases acquitted |   No. of cases withdrawn |
|--------|----------------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
| Total  |                            13877 |                      522 |                      963 |                     3345 |

Note: The number of prosecution cases filed and the figures relating to conviction, acquittal, or withdrawal are not directly correlated, as convictions, acquittals or withdrawals, may pertain to cases filed in different years.

*Data is not available for this period.