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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; 18 of