According to data provided by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) in Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament), 3,005 cases were registered under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) between 2016 and 2018, but chargesheets were filed in only 821 cases, indicating that investigations could be completed only in about 27 per cent of these cases, Indian Express reports on September 17. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy told Rajya Sabha in a written reply that a total of 922, 901 and 1,182 UAPA cases were registered across the country in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively. In these cases, 3,974 people were arrested: 999 in 2016, 1,554 in 2017 and 1,421 in 2018. However, Reddy said, in 2016 chargesheets were filed in only 232 cases. In 2017 the figure stood at 272 and in 2018 it was 317.