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A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking direction to confiscate cent percent of Black Money, Benami properties and disproportionate assets of accused person and it has also sought life imprisonment for offences such as bribery, black money, benami property, tax evasion, money laundering, profiteering, grain hoarding, food adulteration, human and drug trafficking, black marketing and cheating.
The Petition is filed by BJP Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay in view of corruption watchdog Transparency International placing India at 80 in Corruption Perception Index earlier this year. India ranked 66 in 1998, 72 in 1999, 69 in 2000, 71 in 2001, 71 in 2002, 83 in 2003, 90 in 2004, 88 in 2005, 70 in 2006, 72 in 2007, 85 in 2008, 84 in 2009, 87 in 2010, 95 in 2011, 94 in 2012, 87 in 2013, 85 in 2014, 76 in 2015, 79 in 2016, 81 in 2017, 78 in 2018.
“Due to weak and ineffective anti-corruption laws, India has never been ranked even among top 50 in Corruption Perception Index but Centre has not strengthened them to weed-out the menace of corruption, which brazenly offends rule of law as well as right to life liberty dignity guaranteed under Articles 14 and 21,” it said.