{"id":349476,"date":"2024-07-25T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349476"},"modified":"2024-07-25T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:16:52","slug":"bihar-assembly-passes-anti-paper-leak-bill-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-assembly-passes-anti-paper-leak-bill-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar Assembly passes anti-paper leak bill 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/Bihar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/Bihar.jpg 740w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/Bihar-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/Bihar-696x405.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/07\/Bihar-721x420.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Patna: The Bihar government passed the Anti-Paper Leak Bill 2024 in the Assembly on Wednesday which has stringent penalties for exam-related offences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offenders can now face up to 10 years in jail and fines up to 1 crore. The new law applies to all exams in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Individuals caught taking exams for someone else will face three to five years in jail and a fine of 10 lakhs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If an institution is involved in exam irregularities, it will bear the cost of the examination, and its property may be confiscated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bill\u2019s passage saw significant opposition as the opposition leaders caused a ruckus and walked out of the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Chaudhary accused the opposition of defending offenders, emphasising that the government is serious about tackling paper leaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe new law is stricter than the previous one which was enacted in 1981. The previous law only imposed a six-month sentence for such offences, \u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna: The Bihar government passed the Anti-Paper Leak Bill 2024 in the Assembly on Wednesday which has stringent penalties for exam-related offences. Offenders can now face up to 10 years in jail and fines up to 1 crore. The new law applies to all exams in the state. Individuals caught taking exams for someone else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":349479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[18372,17301,17894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349481,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349476\/revisions\/349481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}