Overview
- The chief minister reviewed the Economic Offences Wing in a meeting on Wednesday and directed faster investigations, prosecutions and arrests to secure timely convictions.
- Officials presented a newly developed Case Management System that offers digital case handling, online reporting and real-time dashboard monitoring and were ordered to put it into active use.
- Adityanath instructed that no investigating officer should keep a case pending for more than three months and said responsibility must be fixed for delayed files.
- Officials told the meeting that by May 31, 2026 the EOW had disposed of 155 investigations, inquiries or follow-up actions and arrested 71 people; one outlet separately reported two recent arrests of previously absconding suspects but that detail is not corroborated across other reports.
- The government ordered expanded public-awareness drives and tech-based training on Ponzi schemes, MLM fraud, chit-fund scams and cyber fraud with the stated aim of improving evidence quality and raising conviction rates, though the practical effects of the reforms remain to be seen.