Three Indian officials were arrested last Monday for leaking a chemistry exam paper to students, which forced the test to be cancelled for the second time for the same reason.

上周一，3名印度官员因将化学考试试卷泄露给考生而被逮捕，而因为同一原因，这次考试已经被取消两次了。

An estimated 174,000 candidates were due to sit the pre-university course test on March 21 in the southern Indian state of Karnataka but a leak of that paper caused the exam to be delayed.

约17.4万名考生原定3月21日在印度南部卡纳塔克邦参加大学入学前考试，但由于试题泄露该考试被延期。

The test was canceled for the second time for the same reason last week. The cancellation¹ lead to violent protests by the class 12 students. The agitated² students attacked the office of the examining body over the weekend in Bangalore city.

上周，该考试因为泄题再次被取消。这次考试的取消导致了12名学生举行的暴力抗议活动。部分愤怒的学生于上周末攻击了班加罗尔的一处考试中心办公室。

"We have arrested three persons over the leaking of question papers. We are probing the role of many more," Sonia Narang, head of the criminal investigation³ department told AFP.

刑事调查部门负责人索尼娅·纳朗告诉法新社称：“我们已经逮捕了3名泄题官员。我们还在调查更多人在这起案件中所扮演的角色”

One of the arrested officials is a personal assistant to the medical education minister in the state government, she said. Media reports said 40 education department employees had been suspended following the scandal.

她表示，其中一名被捕官员是该州政府的医学教育部长的私人助理。媒体报道称，教育部门40名雇员因此次丑闻受到停职处理。

The leaked paper was sold for as little as 1,000 rupees (roughly RMB97) on the WhatsApp messaging service, police said.

警方称，遭泄露的考题经由通讯软件WhatsApp"流通"，售价仅为1000卢比(约合人民币97元)。

Cheating in exams is common in India, including the paying large bribes⁴ to buy test papers. Last year hundreds of parents and relatives were arrested in eastern Bihar state for scaling the walls of schools and providing crib sheets and study material to students during exams.

包括通过大金额贿赂相关人员来购买试卷的考试作弊现象在印度司空见惯。去年，在东部的比哈尔州，在一场考试期间，数百名考生父母和亲属因通过翻越学校的墙壁，为考生提供小抄和学习材料而被逮捕。