Maharashtra Lokayukta received over 14,000 complaints in the last 30 months and closed 1,863 of them without taking any action, according to an RTI query.

In response to a query by city-based RTI activist Jitendra Ghadge, the office of the Lokayukta said it received 5,860, 5,200 and 3,028 complaints in the year 2014, 2015 and 2016 (up to July ) respectively, but it closed 914, 831 and 118 complaints in the corresponding years without any action as these did not hold any merit.