India runs some of the largest examinations on earth. NEET-UG alone seats more than two million candidates in a single sitting. When one of those papers leaks, the damage is not administrative — it lands on individual people who spent years preparing, and it lands unevenly.

This is the index to everything we publish on examination integrity: the law, the incidents, the institutional response, and the economic pressure underneath all of it. Each timeline below is dated entry by entry and separates what is on the record from what is alleged.

The timelines

How to read this cluster

Start with the anti-paper-leak law if you want the legal framework — what the 2024 Act actually criminalises, which examinations it covers, and what the 2026 amendment proposes to change. Start with the NEET-UG controversy if you want the case that forced the issue into national politics. The paper leak scams timeline is the broader record, including state-level incidents that never reached national coverage.

What we are watching

The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 is the live thread. These pages are updated as it moves through Parliament, as cases are decided, and as the National Testing Agency’s restructuring produces results that can actually be measured.