The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a refurbished anti-corruption law, which includes seven years of maximum imprisonment in graft-related cases.
The proposed amended bill has been made more stringent and the penal provisions have been increased.
Earlier, the Act proposed only six months of minimum punishment, whereas the new bill has increased it to at least 3 years.
The bill mentions that all the corruption trials should be completed in two years and both bribe taker and giver will be held guilty.
The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has repeatedly said that it will do everything to check the menace of corruption.
Corruption, it may be mentioned, was one of the major election planks during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, which saw the emergence of BJP as the majority party at the Centre.