Overview
- Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Samrat Choudhary announced the initiative on Sunday to speed up criminal case disposal and ease pressure on regular courts.
- Distribution includes eight courts in Patna and four each in Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga and Bhagalpur, with allocations across all districts plus one court each in the Naugachia and Bagaha sub-divisions.
- Seventy-nine of the planned courts will focus on cases under the Arms Act to accelerate decisions on serious offenses.
- Operationalisation will involve large-scale hiring of 900 staff per court across eight roles, including bench clerks, stenographers, deposition writers, data entry operators, drivers, process servers and orderlies.
- Cases for fast-tracking will be selected jointly by district magistrates and senior police officials, and the industries minister has proposed a Bihar Industrial Security Force to enhance investor security.