Unfair means

The unfair means relating to the conduct of a competitive examination shall include any act or omission done or caused to be done by any candidate or any person or group of persons or institutions, and include but not be restricted to, any of the following acts for monetary or wrongful gain,— (i) direct or indirect involvement of any candidate himself or with the support of any other person in competitive examination or illegal use of any written, non-written, quoted, copied, printed material, material obtained from electronic or Information Technology (IT) gadgets or taking any unfair and other unauthorized aid or using any unauthorized electronic or mechanical device or gadget, etc. in the examination; (ii) conduct of impersonation in the examination; (iii) leakage of question paper or answer key or part thereof; (iv) participating in collusion with others to effect leakage of question paper or answer key; (v) accessing or taking possession of question paper or an Optical Mark Recognition response sheet or any other mode of answer sheet without authority; (vi) providing solution to one or more questions by any unauthorized person during a competitive examination; (vii) directly or indirectly assisting the candidate in any manner unauthorized in the competitive examination; (viii) tampering with answer sheets including Optical Mark Recognition response sheets; (ix) altering the assessment except to correct a bona fide error without any authority; (x) willful violation of norms or standards set up by the State Government or Maharashtra Public Service Commission for conduct of a competitive examination on its own or through its agency; (xi) tampering with any document necessary for short-listing of candidates or finalizing the merit or rank of a candidate in a competitive examination; (xii) deliberate violation of security measures to facilitate unfair means in conduct of a competitive examination; (xiii) tampering with the computer network or a computer resource or a computer system; (xiv) manipulation in seating arrangements, allocation of dates and shifts for the candidates to facilitate adopting unfair means in examinations; (xv) threatening the life, liberty or wrongfully restraining persons associated with the competitive examination authority or the service provider or any authorized agency of the Government; or obstructing the conduct of a competitive examination; (xvi) creation of fake website to cheat or for monetary gain; and (xvii) conduct of fake examination, issuance of fake admit cards or offer letters to cheat or for monetary gain.