Writ petition seeks law to prevent question leakage

[Farhana Helal Mehtab]

Writ petition seeks law to prevent question leakage

A writ petition was filed with the High Court seeking demanding enactment of law and directives to prevent question paper leaks in public examinations.

The writ petition  submitted by SC lawyer Eunus Ali Akond also sought directives on the government to formulate a law titled “Question Paper Leakage Control Act, 2014″ with a provision of life sentence for the leakage of question papers.

In the petition, advocate Akond  mentioned that education of  the students is being hampered due to  leakage of  question paper.

According to the petition, secretaries of education, cabinet division, health, law and parliament secretariat, among others, were named as defendant.

source: http://newsworld365.com

Now the question is what does our existence law say?

According to the Public Examinations (Offences) Act, 1980

"Leak-out of question papers before public examination             

Disclosing, publishing, or distributing any paper containing any question set for such examination, or any paper containing any question falsely purporting to be set for such examination, or intending that the same by any means whatsoever before any public examination is held may be treated as identical with any question set for such examination is an offence under the law.

The offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall not be less than three years, and shall also be liable to fine."

[abduarif]

Rightly pointed out.

I also tried to make the same point here: http://www.dhakatribune.com/juris/2014/mar/19/don%E2%80%99t-mess-examinations

[Farhana Helal Mehtab]

O Great ..... you just made a GREEN signal through your comment!
Good write up indeed!

[Ferdousi Begum]

I was surprised to see many facebook accounts regarding JSC and PSC questions. But, there are some conferences held regarding the issue that how to prevent question leakage where youths from various institutions came to give their opinion. Some of them are really valuable. If Govt. works sincerely it will come to an end. In BD there was a time while copying in the exam was prevented by the good initiatives made from the Govt. I believe it will also be prevented if steps will be made by the authority.

[Sonali_Rani]

You are rightly said. to prevent any offence there exist sufficient legal provisions but there is lack of proper initiatives to implement those.

[Farhana Helal Mehtab]

Good observation Ferdousi. And thoughtful comment too.

Thanks Sonali for joining. Hope to get some original/ creative write ups from you in this forum.  Keep your sunny days always up.

Wishes, Ma'am

[Ferdousi Begum]

Thanks ma'am.