The Borneo Post

College cuts off women’s sleeves to stop cheating

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NEW DELHI: An Indian college has been banned from conducting examinatio­ns after it cut off the sleeves of women candidates for nursing tests to prevent cheating, officials said yesterday.

Video shown on Indian TV showed staff at the school using scissors and razor blades to slash the women’s sleeves before allowing them into the exam building on Sunday.

Many of the women can be seen carrying the ripped- off sleeves into the exam hall as dozens of police stand guard outside in the Muzaffarpu­r district of Bihar state.

The act sparked protests outside other exam centres and a torrent of complaints on social media.

District education officer Lalan Prasad Singh said the sleeves were cut to protect the candidates but added that a probe has been launched to find who was responsibl­e.

“The school has been barred from holding exams,” he told reporters when confronted over the outcry.

The eastern state is notorious for exam trickery and reports of mass cheating regularly make headlines.

Nearly 1,000 students were expelled by the Bihar state government in February for cheating in school exams.

In February 2016 army candidates sat in their underwear to take a written exam during a recruitmen­t day in Muzaffarpu­r.

Authoritie­s have already barred students from wearing shoes in exams, to make it more difficult to smuggle in paper.

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