NEW DELHI: Fourteen of the 28 state chief ministers face serious criminal cases, according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by amicus curiae and senior advocate Vijay Hansaria in the decade-old proceedings concerning the expeditious disposal of criminal cases against sitting and former MPs and MLAs.
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy tops the list with 89 cases, followed by West Bengal’s Suvendu Adhikari with 29. Karnataka Chief Minister D. Shivakumar and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu face 19 cases each, while Kerala Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan faces 18.
The report said Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren faces five cases, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu four each, and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary two each.
One case each has been reported against Sikkim Chief Minister P. S. Tamang, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma.
The 96-page report also highlighted the extent of serious criminal cases among legislators in several states. West Bengal has the highest proportion, with 170 of its 292 MLAs, or 58%, facing such cases. Kerala follows with 57%, Andhra Pradesh with 56%, Telangana with 49%, Jharkhand and Odisha with 45% each, Bihar with 42% and Maharashtra with 40%.
Criminal Cases Against MPs
The report said 170 of the 543 Lok Sabha members, or 31%, have serious criminal cases pending against them.
Telangana has 11 of its 17 MPs facing such cases, while Kerala has 11 of 21. In Bihar, 19 of 40 MPs face serious criminal cases, compared with 34 of 80 in Uttar Pradesh. Maharashtra has 17 of 48 MPs, West Bengal 16 of 42 and Andhra Pradesh nine of 25 MPs facing such cases.
As of July 2026, a total of 4,192 criminal cases were pending trial against sitting and former MPs and MLAs, Hansaria said. Uttar Pradesh accounted for the largest share, with 1,171 pending cases.
n the Rajya Sabha, 75 of 233 members, or 33%, have criminal cases against them. Of these, 40 members, or 18%, face serious criminal cases carrying a possible sentence of five years or more, according to the report filed through advocate Sneha Kalita.
The amicus has urged the Supreme Court to designate special courts exclusively for trying criminal cases involving sitting and former legislators. It has also sought directions to the jurisdictional high courts to actively monitor the progress of such trials.
