Soon after taking oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis had assured that there would be zero tolerance on corruption in his government. In one of his interviews to a news channel, Fadnavis took a dig at his predecessor, former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, claiming he will act against the corrupt and also shared plans to change laws on pursuing corruption cases against political leaders. However, with the current scenario of 381 cases against corrupt babus still pending approval, it looks like the government has a long way to go.

As per the apex ruling of May 2013, in State of Maharashtra through CBI (appellant) vs Mahesh G Jain (respondent), grant of sanction is only an administrative function and the sanctioning authority is required to prima facie reach the satisfaction that relevant facts would constitute the offence. However, there seems to be a violation of this rule as, according to the ACB, the departments have denied prosecution sanction citing flimsy and unconvincing reasons.