India to increase penalties for exam leaks after Cockroach party protests

The new legislation comes after youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms and forcing minister's resignation

The bill, which would increase penalties for leaking exam papers, must now be signed into law by President Droupadi Murmu. The approval, which came after several hours of discussion, followed weeks of mass protests over leaked exam papers

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The Shalya Tantra-1 (surgical methods) paper of the Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery – suspected to have leaked – had been put through the two-person authentication system.On Wednesday, several student organisations, including the RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Congress’s National

India’s lower house of parliament approved a bill on Wednesday that would toughen penalties for leaking exam papers, after youth-led protests calling for sweeping reforms forced the education minister to resign.

India’s lower house of Parliament approved tougher penalties for leaks of competitive exam papers on Wednesday, responding to a wave of student protests that posed one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in recent years.

The country's top court has contradicted the assurance extended by India's federal government that all police complaints against protesters would be withdrawn.

NEW DELHI: India's government proposed on Tuesday (Jul 28) longer jail terms and heftier fines for examination paper leaks, seeking to restore confidence after youth-led protests focused on education reforms rocked the country.Under the proposed legal change submitted to parliament, the maximum prison term for those in