The latest data disclosed the Sebi took up 107 cases for investigations in the last fiscal till December 2011 -- higher than the full-year figures since 2006-07.
On the other hand, it could complete only 14 cases in the first nine months of 2011-12 -- representing a sharp decline from the full-year figures in the past 10 years.
Although the numbers are not exactly comparable because of data being available for only nine months for the fiscal 2011-12, but Sebi has already exceeded the full-year numbers in five years in terms of number of cases taken up for probe.
In terms of completed cases also, the number for nine months appears too small to catch up with the previous full-year numbers -- 82 in 2010-11, 74 in 2009-10, 83 in 2008-09 and more than 100 during six financial years between 2002-03 and 2007-08, barring 81 in 2005-06.
The figures have been disclosed by Sebi in its latest "Handbook of statistics on Indian securities market', which was published on its website
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