Bihar legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Bihar laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Bihar Gazette, the state's Law Department and government orders, the India Code repository, state regulators, and the Patna High Court. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured Bihar coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Bihar law imposes prohibition on the manufacture, sale, and consumption of liquor and intoxicants in the state?
The Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 (Bihar Act 6 of 2016) imposes prohibition on the manufacture, bottling, distribution, sale, possession, and consumption of liquor and intoxicants in Bihar. It was enacted by the Bihar Legislature and published in the Bihar Gazette, and has since been amended.
Source: Law Department, Government of Bihar / Bihar Gazette — state.bihar.gov.in
Illustrative — Bihar coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Bihar sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Bihar legal materials from official government, department, court, and regulator sources. Once Bihar coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: state legislation and gazette sources · government departments and orders · regulators · courts and tribunals · public legal information repositories
- Bihar Gazette (state.bihar.gov.in)
- Law Department, Government of Bihar
- India Code — State Acts of Bihar (indiacode.nic.in)
- Bihar Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha)
- Patna High Court (patnahighcourt.gov.in)
- Bihar Electricity Regulatory Commission (BERC)
- Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB)
- Real Estate Regulatory Authority, Bihar (RERA Bihar)
- Commercial Taxes Department, Government of Bihar
- Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC)
Bihar legal source types we structure
Bihar legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Acts of the Bihar Legislature, ordinances, statutory rules, government orders, resolutions, and notifications, taken directly from the Bihar Gazette, the state Law Department, and the India Code repository.
Legislative History
Bills and proceedings of the Bihar Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Tariff orders, notifications, circulars, decisions, and enforcement materials from Bihar regulators such as BERC, BSPCB, RERA Bihar, and the Commercial Taxes Department.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official and authoritative Bihar sources, including the Patna High Court, where available.
One Bihar legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Bihar laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. Bihar coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=IN_BR&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Bihar legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Bihar materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Bihar legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Bihar legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with Bihar legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Bihar legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Bihar law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Bihar sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Bihar legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Bihar legal research
Bihar legal information is spread across the state gazette, the Law Department and government orders, the India Code repository, state regulators, and the courts. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Bihar legal coverage
Bihar is a state in eastern India within India's common-law system. State legislation is enacted by the bicameral Bihar Legislature — the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and the Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad) — and published in the Bihar Gazette, alongside statutory rules, government orders, and notifications issued by state departments; Union (central) laws also apply within the state. Case law comes from the Patna High Court and subordinate courts and tribunals. Legal materials are published primarily in Hindi and English, with Urdu recognised as a second official language.
Bihar's legal and institutional map has shifted materially over the past generation: the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 carved out Jharkhand, so many pre-2000 statutes must be read against the reduced territory, while flagship reforms such as the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 and its subsequent amendments have reset entire areas of state law. Provisions keep changing — so citations to superseded or pre-bifurcation arrangements can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Bihar legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Bihar legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Bihar regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Bihar legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Bihar legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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