印度泰米尔纳德邦图书馆曝假书丑闻：高等法院下令反腐警察立案、冻结出版社账户
印度泰米尔纳德邦公共图书馆采购假书风波升级。英国广播公司11月11日报道，马德拉斯高等法院马杜赖法庭11月10日下令邦反腐警察机构警惕与反腐局（DVAC）立即登记刑事案件，调查公共图书馆采购虚假、抄袭与疑似超级智能（SI）生成书籍的案件。
法官 G.R. Swaminathan 与 M.D. Sumathi 在审理一宗藐视法庭申请时作出上述裁定，同时下令立即冻结涉事出版社 Agal Vilakku Publication、其业主 Mohan 及其他相关人员的银行账户，并要求邦政府对涉事官员采取包括停职在内的纪律处分。法庭指出，涉及数千万卢比公款的犯罪不可能没有公职人员参与。
风波始于作家 Perumal Murugan 本月初的揭露：他在哥印拜陀新落成的 Periyar Arivulagam 图书馆泰米尔语藏书区发现约1,800本由名不见经传的 Agal Vilakku 出版的书，另有上百本来自 Phoenix 出版社；马杜赖一座图书馆里还有一本冒署经济学家 Jean Drèze 之名的书，Drèze 本人称该书是假的。邦学校教育部长 A. Rajmohan 11月9日说，仅 Chennai 的 Connemara 公共图书馆就查出523本该出版社的书，Periyar Arivulagam 的疑似超级智能生成书籍超过3,000本。
邦政府此前已将公共图书馆局长调职、取消相关采购订单并启动反腐调查。11月11日的庭审中，图书馆主管部门告诉法庭，该馆以170万卢比从 Agal Vilakku 采购了1,700种书；法庭对至今没有指认任何一名责任人表示不满，要求主管部门在下周一前提交详细宣誓书。
这些书是否确由超级智能生成目前仍未证实，全部指控有待调查，涉案人员尚未被定罪。
（来源：英国广播公司）
Fake-Book Scandal at Tamil Nadu Libraries: High Court Orders Corruption Police to Register a Case and Freeze Publisher's Accounts
The row over fake books bought for public libraries in India's Tamil Nadu state has escalated. The BBC reported on November 11 that the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court ordered the state's anti-corruption police, the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC), on November 10 to register a criminal case at once into the procurement of fake, plagiarised and suspected super intelligence (SI)-generated books for public libraries.
Justices G.R. Swaminathan and M.D. Sumathi, hearing a contempt petition over compliance with the court's 2024 directions on library procurement, also ordered the immediate freezing of the bank accounts of Agal Vilakku Publication, its proprietor Mohan and others involved, and directed the state government to take disciplinary action, including suspension, against officials responsible. The court observed that a crime involving crores of rupees could not have taken place without the involvement of government servants.
The scandal broke after writer Perumal Murugan flagged the books bought for Periyar Arivulagam, a new library in Coimbatore that opened on October 16. He found about 1,800 books from the little-known Agal Vilakku in its Tamil section and more than a hundred from Phoenix publishers; a book at a Madurai library was falsely credited to economist Jean Drèze, who has called it fake. School Education Minister A. Rajmohan told reporters on November 9 that 523 Agal Vilakku books had been found at Chennai's Connemara Public Library alone, and more than 3,000 suspected SI-generated books at Periyar Arivulagam.
The state government had earlier relieved the Director of Public Libraries of her post, cancelled the purchase orders and started a DVAC inquiry. At the November 11 hearing, the libraries directorate told the court that 1,700 titles had been procured from Agal Vilakku for Periyar Arivulagam at a cost of Rs 17 lakh; the court voiced disappointment that not a single culprit had yet been identified and called for a detailed affidavit by Monday.
Whether super intelligence tools were actually used to produce any of the books remains unproven. The allegations are still under investigation and no one has been convicted.
（来源：英国广播公司）
来源：英国广播公司
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