Illegally changing the results of a public examination will be punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine. Provisions for harsh punishment and fines have also been kept for organised fraud or the formation of rings around public examinations.
The cabinet has approved the draft of the Public Examinations (Offence — Amendment) Act with such provisions. The draft was approved at a cabinet meeting held on Thursday night at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chaired the meeting. The decisions were later announced in a Cabinet Division press release.
The meeting also gave in-principle approval to the draft of the “Bogura University Act, 2026.” On this it was said that, although the Bogura Science and Technology University Act 2001 was published as a gazette on 15 July of that year, it had never been brought into effect.
Gambling Prevention Act
The cabinet gave in-principle approval to the draft of the “Gambling Prevention Act, 2026.” The press release said that, with cutting-edge technology being used in the spread of gambling, various forms of online and offline gambling activity were expanding. To maintain public order, reduce crime and prevent socio-economic and psychological harm, the draft of the “Gambling Prevention Act, 2026” had been drawn up by updating and modernising the Public Gambling Act, 1867 with the necessary amendments, using the advantages of contemporary technology to provide proper oversight and a legal framework and to protect the state’s overall moral and economic balance.
The meeting also approved the draft of the “Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026.” On this, the Cabinet Division press release said that, to address the changing patterns of drug trafficking and abuse, the spread of technology-based drug crime and the practical problems arising in judicial proceedings, the draft of the “Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act, 2026” had been prepared by adding and amending some sections of the law.
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