India cracks down on ‘exam mafia’ with tough new anti-copying laws

NEW DELHI - Amit Yadav has dreamt of becoming an “ideal teacher”, someone students would fondly remember as a mentor even years after their schooling.

Reports emerged that the question paper had been leaked two days before the exam. A copy was stolen from an education department office and shared with others who reportedly paid as much as one million rupees for each sample.“I was disheartened because it meant we would have to prepare all over again, that it could take another two to three years to find a job,” Mr Yadav told The Straits Times on Monday. He sat for the rescheduled exam in February 2023, results of which have yet to be declared.

Papers have been leaked multiple times across many states; in Rajasthan at least 12 recruitment drives were cancelled since 2018 after test paper leaks. Nefarious means – such as slippers rigged with communication devices to go with an inconspicuous earpiece – are not uncommon, as are paid imposters who write tests on someone else’s behalf.

Gujarat, where as many as 11 papers were leaked in the past 11 years, too enacted a similar law in February. Rajasthan did so in March 2022, as did Haryana in August 2021. In February 2023, police arrested the owner of a coaching centre in Roorkee in Uttarakhand, for allegedly distributing pilfered question papers for a 2018 government exam to recruit assistant and junior engineers.

In Uttarakhand, three senior government officials were arrested in October 2022 in connection with leaks for a 2016 recruitment exam, including a former chairman of the Uttarakhand Subordinate Service Selection Commission that conducts some of these exams.

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