Assam Plans Law To Curb Cheating In Exams With 5 Years' Jail, 10 Lakh Fine
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In a bill tabled in the assembly today, the Assam government has proposed minimum punishment of five years' jail time and a fine of Rs 10 lakh.
Assam may become the country's first state to have stringent laws in place to contain cheating in public exams. In a bill tabled in the assembly today, the state government has proposed minimum punishment of five years' jail time and a fine of Rs 10 lakh. The ambit of people who can be tried under the Assam Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of unfair Means in Recruitment) Bill, 2024, is wide. It involves not only the examinee, but also the authorities in charge of conducting exams.
The bill proposes punishment of imprisonment of five to ten years, and fine of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 1 crore, the government said in a statement to the media today. For the examinee who cheats, the punishment is less severe – three years in jail and Rs 1 lakh fine. But failure to pay the fine would mean another two years in jail.
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