The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 that has…
CLAT 2025 · Legal Reasoning · 5 questions
The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 that has provision for up to five years' imprisonment and a fine of up to ₹1 crore for malpractices and organized cheating in government recruitment exams was notified by the Union government and came into effect from June 21, 2024. The Bill had received assent from the President of India on the 13th February 2024. The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024 mentions punishments for "leakage of question paper or answer key", "directly or indirectly assisting the candidate in any manner unauthorisedly in the public examination" and "tampering with the computer network or a computer resource or a computer system" as offences done by a person, group of persons or institutions. Besides these, "creation of fake website to cheat or for monetary gain", "conduct of fake examination, issuance of fake admit cards or offer letters to cheat or for monetary gain" and "manipulation in seating arrangements, allocation of dates and shifts for the candidates to facilitate adopting unfair means in examinations" are also among the offences punishable under the law. "Any person or persons resorting to unfair means and offences under this Act shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not less than three years but which may extend to five years and with fine up to 10 lakh," said the Act. A service provider, engaged by the public examination authority for conduct of examinations, shall also be liable to be punished with imposition of a fine up to ₹1 crore "and proportionate cost of examination shall also be recovered" from it, according to the Act. Such service providers shall also be barred from being assigned with any responsibility for the conduct of any public examination for a period of four years. [Extracted, with edits and revisions from "Act that Punishes Organized Cheating in Government Exams Comes into Effect" published in The Hindu dated 22-06-2024]
Question 1
A Bill becomes an Act only when
A. Both the houses of the Parliament pass with simple majority
B. Both the houses of the Parliament pass with absolute majority
C. When the Prime Minister of India gives his approval
A service provider, engaged by the public examination authority for conduct of examinations, indirectly helped his family member by giving hint on questions that were supposed to be asked in the examination shall
A. Be liable to be punished with imposition of a fine of ₹1 crore
B. Be liable to be punished with imposition of a fine upto ₹1 crore
C. Be liable to be punished with imposition of a fine upto ₹1 crore and the entire cost of conduct of the examination
An invigilator of a public examination found guilty of manipulating the seating arrangement to favour his relative writing the public examination is punished by the Court. Which among the following is the appropriate punishment as per the punishment mentioned in the above passage?
A. Imprisonment for 1 year and fine of 1 lakh
B. Imprisonment for 2 years and a fine of 10 lakhs
Identify which of the following is not an unfair means relating to the conduct of a public examination?
A. Coaching Centre conducting mock tests for students
B. The Coaching Centre offering help to its students during the examination
C. The Centre Superintendent of the public examination on the request of the Coaching Centre provides seating arrangement of all its students in one hall
D. The Centre Superintendent of the public examination indirectly assisting the candidate
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