Chandigarh, July 28 -- The Haryana government enacted a stringent anti-paper leak law in 2021 promising to crack down on organised examination fraud, including leakage of question papers in public examinations. But nearly five years later, the government's own records suggest that prosecutions under the law have made limited headway.

Of the 17 first information reports (FIRs) registered till December 31, 2025, after the law, the Haryana Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, came into force on September 10, 2021, twelve have progressed to the chargesheet stage in trial courts while five cases are still under investigation by the state police.

The analysis is based on the record relating to 29 FIRs registered between 2014 a...