New Delhi, July 13 -- A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a series of directions to overhaul the investigation and prosecution of paper leak cases across the country, including framing a Special Investigation Procedure (SIP), ensuring time-bound investigation and speedy trials, confiscating the properties of those involved in organised paper leak rackets, and imposing consecutive sentences on offenders.

The PIL, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay under Article 32 of the Constitution, contends that recurring paper leaks have eroded the credibility of public examinations and jeopardised the future of lakhs of students.

It submits that despite the enactment of the Public Examinations (Pr...