The Research Paper deals with the effectiveness of an Act, The Bihar special Court Act, 2009 brought out by the State of Bihar in the country of India initiated in the year 2009 and finally taking a shape of an act after getting the assent of the President in the year 2010. The Act was special in the sense that it contained separate provisions for the adjudicating the matters of the ill‐gotten property amassed and collected by the corrupt officials of the state diminishing the overall efficiency of the governance of the state and demoralizing the effort for the welfare. It is also special because while it seek to do so separately and independent of his own trial in persona in a different court but in a time bound manner. The state after the implementation of the Act was able to attach the property of the corrupt officials even before his actual trial for punishment could be concluded giving no opportunity to the person to be in enjoyment of the illgotten property when his actual trial was still going on in a different court. This made the corruption a highly risky endeavour for the officials top to down. The special Court was able to attach property of the highest officials of the state in the rank of Grade I which was hitherto not possible. Earlier the attachment of property could only be done after the conclusion of the trial and till then the corrupt person kept on enjoying the property but with the activation of this act the trial of his property went on simultaneously while the person was tried in the other parallel court.

Sunil Tankha
hdl.handle.net/2105/13707
Public Policy and Management (PPM)
International Institute of Social Studies

Kumar, Shailendra. (2012, November 14). The Bihar Special Court Act: a step towards the good governance. Public Policy and Management (PPM). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2105/13707