Now the Nitish Kumar Government has decided to actually arrange the bait (read bribe), and all you have to do is to make the prey accept the money while the vigilance sleuths would do the rest.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has cleared a proposal mooted to this effect by Additional Director General of Police (Vigilance) Neelmani.

"To begin with, we now have an allocation of Rs 20 lakh to reimburse the complainant of the money he pays to the bribe seekers," Neelmani told India Today. "This initiative has been mooted to mitigate the hardship of the genuine complainants who cannot afford to pay the bribe," he said.

"Now, an amount equal to the amount of bribe money would be withdrawn from the special fund and paid to the complainant after each successful trap.

When the trap money is returned by the court on conclusion of the judicial proceedings it would then be deposited in that special fund," he said, adding "Now new rules are in place, and a complainant will get back his money within a fortnight of the trap."  

Earlier, the practice was that the State Vigilance Investigation Bureau, on receiving a complaint about a bribe demand, would ask the complainant to go ahead and pay the graft seeker.

The vigilance sleuths then used to lay trap and arrest the official red-handed. But the trap money, the one that is used to pay bribe was to be arranged by the complainant.

This was sort of deterrent for the complainants because the trap money would become case property-something that cannot be refunded to the complainant until the conclusion of the judicial proceedings.