There has always been a very common tactic adopted by police stations in Punjab, where they would do their best to avoid filing FIRs. every complaint was met with excuses like, yeh hamaray ilaqay mein nahi ata..... abhi aghwa ka case nahin bunta....qatilon sey sulah kar lo......larki marzi sey bhagi ho gi.....etc etc. The objective was that by having fewer FIRs, their crime rate would seem low. we have lived with fake numbers and fraudulent stats for decades, and have seemingly gotten used to them.
This so called increase in corruption is a side effect of honest reporting. Now, more cases are being reported....more people are coming forward. MOre people are being made to pay for their crimes. So its not a surprise that there is 'more corruption; than before. Previously, all these corrupts were classified as clean