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The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has prepared a legal draft to prevent the leaking of quizzes related to academic and competitive exams and to curb the gang of paper solvers.
The State Law Commission has handed over this draft to the Uttar Pradesh Law Department.
There is a provision of 14 years in jail and a fine of up to Rs 25 lakh in this proposed law.
The State Law Commission in its report related to this legal draft wrote: “Copying has become big business, exams must be canceled due to paper leakage, government money is lost, current law fails to stop the copy”. days or a month, cheating-related headlines appear on the front page of the newspaper. These raise doubts about the credibility of these reviews and tarnish the image of the Uttar Pradesh government.”
The State Law Commission has drafted a new bill to deal with counterfeiting based on these things.
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old copy of state law
There are already two laws against copying in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Public Inspection (Prevention of Unfair Media) Act 1992 and Uttar Pradesh Public Inspection (Prevention of Unfair Media) Act 1998.
Considering the young age of the minors examined in these laws, there were only provisions for token punishment.
Then the question arises that despite the existing law, why do you feel the need for a new law to copy?
The Law Commission report says: “The incidence of copying has increased enormously and is embarrassing the government. And these existing laws are proving ineffective in dealing with the threat of fixer gangs, paper leaks and copying.”
This is the reason why the State Law Commission, taking its notice, drew up a project to deal with it and sent it to the State Government to make a law.
Shall we tell you what provisions have been maintained in the bill to stop copying in the UP and what has been the history of copying in the UP?
Copy Methods and Provisions of the Bill
In this regard, the report of the Legal Commission says that there is an organized system of copying and copying in the state. This is done by paper leak, via Bluetooth, through groups of paper solvers, and may also include employees and officials of the department and companies conducting the exam.
Whenever STF of Uttar Pradesh or any other investigative agency stopped the gang of copycats caught If so, the same methods of copying and performing have been expounded over and over again with some difference.
The name of the proposed draft cheating law is the Uttar Pradesh Public Examinations Bill (Prevention of Unfair Media, Paper Leaks and Solver Gang Activities), 2023.
To convert it into law, the government must approve it in both Houses of the state and declare it as law through the gazette. If necessary, the government can also pass your ordinance.
In this draft, the “Solver Gang” and its methods have been defined in great detail. Anyone who helps copy in any way is considered a member of the solver gang.
There is a provision for the use of modern technology in copying and the punishment of people who execute it (copy).
Students found guilty of cheating will have their results withheld or the candidate will be prohibited from taking the next two exam sessions.
Anyone found guilty of running a fixer gang can be jailed for 5-14 years and may have to pay a fine of 25 lakhs.
There is also a provision for seizure of property in this proposed law.
The draft reads: “The district DM has full authority to seize property purchased with money earned from the copy business.”
In this law, the company that prints the exam can be charged a fine for canceling the exam or compensating the government for the financial loss caused by copying, and a lifetime ban can be imposed on the company.
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In 2017, PM Modi raised the issue of cheating in UP
In the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the copying issue from the platform of a rally in Gonda.
Addressing the government of Akhilesh Yadav, Prime Minister Modi had said: “In Gonda, the plagiarism business is running, the business is running. It is said to look, three thousand daily, two thousand daily, five thousand daily. If there is a job of Mathematics, then so much, if there is a scientific article then so much. Is it happening or not, brothers?
The people who came to the demonstration say: “It happens.”
Modi asks, “Should this hiring be stopped or not?”
The public says: “It should be.”
Modi asks, “Should this dishonesty stop or not?”
The public says: “It should be.”
Modi says from the stage: “This is a business that destroys the future generation of my country. This business must stop. The crime that has been associated with education destroys the society for generations to come.”
Modi went on for five minutes on the topic of copying.
It will be 6 years since he made that speech to PM Modi and from then till now the BJP government rules the state under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath.
But if the Law Commission is to be believed, the copying problem in the state is still highly organized and widespread.
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In June 2018, the UP STF arrested 22 people from Meerut for cheating on the agent recruitment exam.
The bill is based on the survey
The need for a new law arose from a poll by the Law Commission, in which more than 61 percent of people were in favor of a stricter law to stop plagiarism.
In this survey, the Law Commission sought responses from judicial officials, universities, district courts, superior court officials, state government officials, and laypeople on an 18-question questionnaire.
In this, people were specially asked the question of enacting a strict law against copying.
Along with this, questions were also asked about the role of the solver gang, the paper leak, educational institutions, parents of students, and the role of exam-taking institutions.
It was revealed in the survey that more than 67 percent of people believe that unemployment is rising in the country due to copying incidents and paper leaks. At the same time, 95 per cent of people believe that this is hampering the productivity of Uttar Pradesh.
81 per cent of those surveyed believe that poor practice in health services, inefficient engineers and fraud in banking facilities create social ills due to bad exam practice.
The Law Commission says it got enough responses in the survey to make the bill.
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Mobile phones, cash and other items recovered from 22 people arrested in Meerut for cheating in June 2018
paper leak history in up
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- In Uttar Pradesh, the main Lekhpal recruitment exam was conducted at 501 centers in 12 districts in which 2.5 lakh candidates applied.
- The police had arrested 21 accused of paper and copy leak.
- In Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia, new charges have been brought under the strict National Security Act against an inter-university professor who was previously arrested in a criminal case related to the leak of UP board exam questionnaires.
- The NSA prevailed against a total of five people and 55 people were arrested.
- Just before the elections to the assembly in the state, the paper of the Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) carried out for the hiring of primary and secondary teachers of the UP was leaked.
- 29 people were arrested in connection with the paper leak.
- Around 20 lakh candidates were required to sit for the exam at 2,736 examination centers.
- It was about PET (Preliminary Eligibility Test) conducted by UPSSSC in the state and Rs 36 lakh was said to have been paid to employees of Lucknow Printing Press for 3 sets of test sheets.
- In the investigation, this news turned out to be false, a product of social networks.
- This exam was carried out in two shifts in which 20,73,540 candidates took part.
April 2, 2016
- Supposedly, paper from the UP Civil Services preliminary exam was leaked.
- Police launched an investigation and arrested at least two suspects.
- The exam taken by more than four lakh PCS candidates had to be canceled in more than 900 centers across the state.
- Test takers protested outside various centers in various cities, including Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi and Kanpur.
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Five people were arrested by the Basti Police on 30 November 2021 for leaking the Uttar Pradesh TET exam questionnaire
what kind of law in what state
Uttar Pradesh is not the only state that has enacted laws from time to time to crack down on plagiarism.
uttarakhand The laws related to the crime of plagiarism are the strictest. There, the government issued an ordinance this year, in which there is a provision of life imprisonment for the guilty and a fine of up to Rs 10 crore. But this law only applies to cheating on competitive government tests, not school tests.
Hariana: The perpetrator involved in the paper leak can receive a sentence of up to 7 years and if the copying is done in an organized manner, there is a sentence provision of up to 10 years. Haryana law also has a provision to seize property bought with money earned from the copy business.
Andhra Pradesh In this, there is a provision of imprisonment of 3 to 7 years and a fine for those guilty of using “unfair methods” in the exam.
rajasthan In this, there is a provision for a sentence of three years in prison and a fine for the person who leaks the paper.
Jammu and Kashmir In this, there is a provision for the maximum punishment of 2 years and a maximum fine of two lakhs for the use of “unfair methods” in the examination.
chattisgarh There is a provision of one year in prison for paper leakers. But if there is a heinous crime related to copying, then the punishment can be up to 5 years.
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