The Assam govt during the budget session of the Assam Legislative assembly, has presented the Assam Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Bill, 2024.
According to the introduced bill, unfair means during the public examinations will be fined 10 lakh to 10 crore or prisonment for 5 years.
Clause 10(2) of the Bill empowers the Government to punish any person including examinee, whether entrusted or authorised with a conduct of public examination or not, indulging any attempt of leak, to procure, sell, to print, to solve question paper, directly or indirectly to assist examinee in unauthorised manner, to conduct examination in not designated centres or print question papers or blank answer scripts in not designated printing press, with imprisonment of 5 years to 10 years or fine 10 lakh to 10 crore and in case of default of fine, further imprisonment of two years,” the memorandum regarding delegated legislations reads.