 bill no 182 of  2017 the prevention of corruption (amendment) bill, 2017 by shri sunil kumar singh, mp a billfurther to amend the prevention of corruption act, 1988be  it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title1 (1) this act may be called the prevention of corruption (amendment) act, 2017short titleamendment of section 1749 of 198852 in section 17 of the prevention of corruption act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), the following proviso shall be added at the end, namely:"provided also that a police officer investigating into an offence referred to in clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 13 shall compulsorily inquire into and, as far as possible, find out the sources of and the manner of acquiring the pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to the known sources of income of a public servant and the extent of role of other public servants in commission of such offence"amendment of section 193 in section 19 of the principal act, in sub-section (1), the following proviso shall be added at the end, namely:—5"provided that where a decision regarding granting or withholding the previous sanction is not taken within a period of four months from the date of seeking previous sanction, the previous sanction shall, after the expiry of the said period, be deemed to have been given by the central government or the state government or the competent authority, as the case may be" statement of objects and reasonsat present, corruption is the biggest problem afflicting our country it is difficult to assess the extent of damage that corruption has done to our country corruption devalues human rights and hampers growth it is urgently required to put in place the strongest possible laws to check corruption at the same time, it is also equally important that these laws are implemented in an effective manner increase in quantum of punishment to and fine on people involved in corruption will be a step in that directionin various raids conducted during the past few years, some public servants including those belonging to group 'c' and 'd' categories have been found to have amassed crores of rupees which is beyond their known sources of income these assets are alleged to have been acquired through illegal gratifications thus, a provision should be made in the act to find out how and from where such assets were acquired by the public servants obtaining prior sanction from the competent authority to initiate the process of prosecution against public servants accused of corruption is a major stumbling block there is a popular perception in the country that necessary effort must be made to prevent corruption it is therefore, necessary that the process of sanctioning prosecution should be completed within a stipulated time framehence this billnew delhi;sunil kumar singhjuly 5, 2017 annexure extract from the constitution of india (49 of 1988)17 notwithstanding anything contained in the code of criminal procedure, 1973, no police officer below the rank,—persons authorised to investigate(a) in the case of the delhi special police establishment, of an inspector of police; (b)    (c)    provided that if a police officer not below the rank of an inspector of police is authorised by the state government in this behalf by general or special order, he may also investigate any such offence without the order of a metropolitan magistrate or a magistrate of the first class, as the case may be, or make arrest therefore without a warrant:provided further that an offence referred to in clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 13shall not be investigated without the order of a police officer not below the rank of a superintendent of police19 (1)    previous sanction necessary for prosecution(2) where for any reason whatsoever any doubt arises as to whether the previous sanction as required under sub-section (1) should be given by the central government or the state government or any other authority, such sanction shall be given by that government or authority which would have been competent to remove the public servant from his office at the time when the offence was alleged to have been committed   ———— a billfurther to amend the prevention of corruption act, 1988————(shri sunil kumar singh, mp)