200 CHAPTER – IV AN ANALYSIS OF THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT, 1988 4.1. INTRODUCTION The Prevention of Corruption of Act, 1988 is an important legislation to fight with evil of corruption. It is an effective instrument to curb this evil. The success of movement against the evil of corruption depends upon the performance of this legislation. Hence it becomes important for us to know about the efficacy of this legislation. We have to find out the lacuna in the legislation if they exist in this legislation. We have to do away with the draconian provisions existing within the Act. Similarly the introduction of new provisions into the Act will also be fruitful. As we have observed in Chapter – II, the evil of corruption has been in existence from the ancient times. It has affected the society all over the world. Because of a number of factors it has affected our nation badly. We have already observed in Chapter – I that all the fields of life are affected by the evil of corruption. Even the Education Sector is not immune from this evil which is expected to incorporate ideal ethical behavior among the students. For instance, two senior officers of the Directorate of Higher Education were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 20,000 from a Professor 299 . There have been various reasons behind the expansion of corruption. The evil of corruption has affected the prospects of economy in an enormous way because of multifarious nature of the evil. The cases of corruption have increased manifold. We have enacted many anti-corruption laws to tackle with this evil. Yet there is no end to the instances of corruption. Even the members of elite class are promoting the evil of corruption irrespective of the money and resources they are having. Similarly, top bureaucrats 299 ―Two Directorate of Higher Education officials held for graft ‖, Available at: http://www.business- standard.com/article/pti-stories/two-directorate-of-higher-education-officials-held-for-graft- 114122400650_1.html (visited on December 25, 2014).
CHAPTER – IV: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT, 1988
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