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The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam
印度考试致命舞弊案的神秘面纱
On the night of 7 January 2012, a stationmaster at a provincial railway station in central India discovered the body of a young woman lying beside the tracks.
2012年1月7日晚，印度中部一个省火车站的站长在铁轨旁发现了一名年轻女子的尸体。
The corpse, clothed in a red kurta and a violet and grey Puma jacket, was taken to a local morgue, where a postmortem report classified the death as a homicide.
尸体穿着红色的无领长袍和一件紫色和灰色相间的彪马夹克，被送往当地的太平间，验尸报告将死因归类为他杀。
The unidentified body was “a female aged about 21 to 25 years”, according to the postmortem, which described “dried blood present” in the nostrils, and the “tongue found clenched between upper and lower jaw, two upper teeth found missing, lips found bruised”.
根据验尸报告，这具身份不明的尸体是“一名女性，年龄在21到25岁之间”，鼻孔中有“干血”，以及“舌头蜷缩于上下颌骨之间，两颗上牙缺失，嘴唇上发现伤痕。”。
There was a crescent of scratches on the young woman’s face, as if gouged by the fingernails of a hand forcefully clamped over her mouth.
女子的脸上有新月形抓痕，像是被一张紧紧捂住嘴巴的手的指甲留下的印迹。
“In our opinion,” the handwritten report concluded, “the deceased died of asphyxia (violent asphyxia) as a result of smothering.”
“据我们判断，”这份手写报告总结道，“死亡原因为(暴力)窒息。”
Three weeks later, a retired schoolteacher, Mehtab Singh Damor, identified the body as his 19-year-old daughter Namrata Damor -- who had been studying medicine at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Indore before she suddenly vanished one morning in early January 2012.
三周后，退休教师麦塔卜·达莫（MehtabDamor）认领了尸体，证实死者是他19岁的女儿纳姆拉塔·达莫（NamrataDamor）原本在印多尔的圣雄甘地医学院读书，2012年1月初的一天早晨突然失踪。
Damor demanded an investigation to find his daughter’s killer, but the police dismissed the findings of the initial postmortem, and labelled her death a suicide.
达莫要求追查杀害他女儿的凶手，但此时警方却否认最初的尸检报告，将纳姆拉塔的死亡裁定为自杀。
The case was closed -- until this July, more than three years later, when a 38-year-old television reporter named Akshay Singh travelled from Delhi to the small Madhya Pradesh town of Meghnagar to interview Namrata’s father.
案件就此了结，直到三年多后的2015年7月，38岁的电视记者阿克沙伊·辛格（A kshaySingh）来到中央邦小镇梅格纳迦尔（Meghnagar）采访纳姆拉塔的父亲。
Singh thought that Namrata’s mysterious death might be connected to an extraordinary public scandal, known as the Vyapam scam, which had roiled the highest echelons of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
辛格认为纳姆拉塔的神秘死亡可能和一起公共丑闻有关，这起轰动印度的“维亚帕姆骗局”V yapam牵涉到中央邦最高层人物。
