His main role was to maintain law and order in the society while implementing harsh injunctions of Arthashastra to collect taxes and suppress rebellions.

After Bihar was carved out as an independent province in 1912 from Bengal, the basic structure of police was created as it exists today.

These included Mr. Walter Swain of Swain Beat system fame, Shri AK Sinha, the first Indian to become an IGP of any province, Shri BN Mullick, the second director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Khan Bahadur Azizul Haque, credited with the primary development of the famous ‘1024 pigeon holes’ cabinet system eventually named after his supervisor, Sir Edward Richard Henry.

[8] The Bihar Police has an extensive history of brutality, corruption, incompetence, caste discrimination as well as serving the political elite.

The Bihar Police was notoriously involved in the 1980 Bhagalpur blindings, where acid was poured into the eyes of 31 individuals, either convicted or undertrial.

Given the extreme misconduct, the Supreme Court of India ordered compensation to the victims for violation of basic human rights.

[9] During the tenure of Lalu Prasad Yadav as Chief Minister, he interfered in policing of entire state to prevent any cases against the political leaders as well as party workers.

[10] Furthermore, during Yadav's tenure as Chief Minister, Bihar's law and order was at lowest,[11][12] kidnapping was on rise and private armies mushroomed.