5th FIMT MOOT COURT COMPETITION 2026

(ALL INDIA PARTICIPATION)

1. The Republic of Trapezium is a country of very long history, carrying rich civilisation and
material resources, with rivers, forests and mineral resources. It is, at the same time, much
diverse, cradling cultures with incomparable multiplicity and array of hues and colours. It
is amalgamating history, tradition, culture, plurality, art, artisanship, technology, belief,
development and progress in sundry environment, operating successfully with ethical
cohesion and modern constitutional framework adopted to advance Justice-social,
economic and political, centred around human dignity. Pursuant to the enormous utility of
emerging technologies, especially information technologies, to facilitate life, livelihood,
progress and prosperity, in the much challenging situations of competition, the Parliament
of Trapezium, seated in the capital city of Parkar, has caricatured and adopted a legislative
mechanism to regulate the said technological development and control possible misuse of
existing and emerging technologies. The pivotal statute in this framework is the
Information Technology Act, 2000. It provides the foundational legal base for addressing
the issues of cybersecurity, cyberattacks/threats, digital governance, sustainability of
action by authorities, and technological accountability.
2. Education is an expressly guaranteed fundamental right under the Constitution of
Trapezium. Right to receive free education at the governmental expenses is the right of
every child from the age of six years to fourteen years. With 1.4 billion population, the
State of Trapezium requires a robust digital governance system to give access to all its
children quality education and maintain it all possible breaches, which can be detrimental
to very future of this nation. The use of ICT devices is in popular use by persons of any
age as a necessity, the threat of misuse by anyone at anytime remains a threat, in any
situation. Extreme degree of alert remaining a sine qua non for the system of service and
governance to sustain, the security measures are required to potentially potent to meet the
challenges of overtake and breach. Any slight dimness or fragility in the system is sure to
create a havoc. There are service providers with claims of better service, competing in the
relevant market spaces and in nexus with persons in positions of authority.
3. Eastern Valley University is a well-known university in Parkar with a good intake with
increasing possibilities. The environment in the University is professionally and culturally
robust. Campus activities take place in good numbers. Students interact during these
cultural and training sessions with enthusiasm. There were many outstanding students in

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 the University. Some of them were very good personal friends also. There was in
Riverview Hostel of the University a very brilliant student Kartikay, generally claiming
though reclusive, who got a job by campus placement in New York. In the Riverview
Hostel (Girl Wing), there was an extraordinarily Tech-Savy student, Anushka, being crazy
about participation in the University events, was angry with many for not inviting her to
dinner parties held towards the end of the academic session. On the last day of the
examination, she left for Tokyo to serve in a company which had offered her a job by
campus placement.
4. On 14 June 2025, the High Court of Parkar received a confidential report from the Parkar
State Examination Integrity Commission (PSEIC) stating that Eastern Valley University
(EVU) had suffered a major cyberattack on its Examination and Evaluation Management
System (EEMS), where stolen login credentials had been used to create an unauthorized
administrator account, and marks of several students were changed, digital answer scripts
were tampered with, and audit logs were deleted, while routing their activity through
multiple foreign VPN (Virtual Private Network) servers.
5. EVU, which conducts examinations through the Unified Higher Education Digital Grid
(UHEDG) and relies on EEMS maintained by EduTech Solutions [Link]., had previously
been warned by the Parkar Higher Education Digital Authority (PHEDA) for weak
passwords, credential sharing, lack of two-factor authentication, outdated patches, and
poor cybersecurity practices, but had failed to rectify these issues.
6. On 28 May 2025, EVU detected suspicious activity, including five simultaneous logins
from different locations, a sudden burst of database edits between 02:13 AM and 04:41
AM, the use of an unauthorized SSH key, checksum mismatches in 48 digital scripts,
corrupted audit trails, and the presence of a secret account named “temp_admin88,” after
which the University filed a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station. FIR No. 47/2025
registered under Sections 66, 66C, and 66D of the Trapezium Information Technology Act,
2000, and Sections 318 (cheating), 319 (cheating by personation), 336 (forgery of
electronic records), 340 (using forged electronic records), 241 (destruction of evidence),
and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Trapezium Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (INS), and the
investigation was taken over by the Special Cyber Investigation Task Force (SCITF).
7. The police traced one of the unauthorized access sessions to Room no. 214 of Riverview
Hostel, occupied by 22-year-old final-year student Riaan Verma, who is known for his
coding skills. The police allege that Riaan shoulder-surfed ‘Evaluation Assistant Pranay
Sen’s login credentials; and later captured his 2-factor authentication through a fake EVU

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 login page, and used those credentials to escalate privileges through a vulnerability in
EEMS. He created the shadow administrator account; changed his own marks and those
of other students; altered digital answer scripts, and deleted logs to hide the intrusion. The
police claimed: they recovered a Pen Drive titled “UHEDG_access_tools,” a laptop
containing similar Python scripts, handwritten notes mapping the server, and browsing
history related to bypassing authentication, along with CCTV footage showing Riaan
behind Pranay on multiple dates.
8. In the ensuing academic session, there was a substantial decrease in the foot fall of
aspirants in the Eastern Valley University. The North Park University had an equal rise in
its counselling spaces, and engagement of some admission advisors who had served in the
Eastern Valley University.
9. Riaan denies all allegations and urges that the hostel Wi-Fi uses Network Address
Translation (NAT), meaning the same public IP is shared by hundreds of students; the Pen
Drive was seized without proper sealing, hashing, and compliance with the Trapezium
Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (TNSS); without proper certification of electronic
evidence under Sections 63–65 of the Trapezium Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (TSA).
Credential sharing among EVU staff was common; the scripts found on the seized laptop
were open-source and downloaded for a hackathon; and an anonymous email to PSEIC
suggests that someone inside the Controller of Examinations’ office may have created the
backdoor.
10. Riaan further asserts he had no motive, as he had a good academic record and would not
intentionally lower marks of other students. Meanwhile, 48 affected students claim
academic and career losses, PHEDA’s audit indicates that EduTech Solutions failed to
patch vulnerabilities and monitor login anomalies, and internal reviews show that EVU
staff often shared or wrote down passwords and kept computers unlocked, leading to public
protests and political statements accusing the University of failing to secure its
examination system.
11. After completing the investigation, the Special Cyber Investigation Task Force filed a
charge-sheet before the Special Cyber Offences Court. Riaan has filed a petition under
Section 528 of the Trapezium Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (INSS), 2023 before the High
Court of Parkar seeking quashing of the FIR, the charge-sheet, and the ongoing criminal
proceedings on the grounds of lack of admissible electronic evidence, procedural lapses,
unreliable attribution on a shared network, and bias in the investigation, which the State

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 contests by arguing that the digital trail forms a clear prima facie chain of circumstances
implicating him.
12. The case is now fixed for final hearing on 15 February, 2026, by the Hon’ble High Court
of Parkar and the following issues are to be determined:

• Whether FIR against the accused should be quashed for not making a sufficiently any
case of digital theft and cheating under relevant laws of Trapezium, as he is entitled
to human rights of not to be harassed or put to arrest without sufficient cause, and his
liberty should not be curtailed in any way.

• Whether the human right of the accused to privacy is violated by accessing to his digital
records for securing electronic evidence to prove the charges of forgery of electronic
records of the University, using forged secret electronic keys, and destruction of
evidence.

• Whether the charges of criminal conspiracy and cyber-trespassing under the Criminal
Laws of Trapezium lead to violation of human rights of accused and other related
individuals.

• Whether private vendors are liable for reported cyber breaches in the Examination
and Evaluation Systems.

• Whether tampering with public examination records elevates criminal gravity and
State liability/accountability contra human rights/dignity of the accused as well as
those whose scores have been diminished.

13. The laws of ‘Trapezium’ are Pari Materia to the laws of ‘India’ and the facts of this Moot
Proposition are purely a work of fiction and purely intended for academic purposes.