How Parliament passed 2024 anti-paper leak Act: Invoking Kota girl suicide to bipartisan support

Barely two-and-a-half months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the then Narendra Modi government 2.0 brought the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2024, in Parliament, which sought to prevent “unfair means” in order to “bring greater transparency, fairness and credibility to the public examinations system” in the country.These exams include common entrance tests and government recruitment exams conducted by “public examination authorities” such as the UPSC and National Testing Agency (NTA), among others.The Bill was passed by both the Houses in February 2024 during the Budget Session. Amid its current standoff with the student and youth protesters led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the Modi government is planning to amend the 2024 Bill to make it more stringent