The official response to an RTI inquiry has revealed that criminal cases are pending against 66 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers across India. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed social activist Nutan Thakur that Rajasthan tops the list of criminal cases pending against 13 IPS officers. The corresponding numbers are eight IPS officers in Tamil Nadu and seven officers in Gujarat. Four IPS officers of the Union Territory (UT) cadre and four IPS officers from small states of Manipur and Tripura also have criminal cases pending against them. Criminal cases are also pending against one IPS officer each from Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Sikkim and Uttar Pradesh, among others. There are no criminal cases pending against any IPS officer from Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Telangana, as per the MHA response. In a recent decision, Central Information Commissioner Yashovardhan Azad (CIC) had directed the MHA to provide this data on criminal cases against IPS officers to the petitioner.