Guwahati, March 20 -- Officials in Assam's Barpeta district decided to cancel the Class 9 English annual exam scheduled for Thursday after the question paper leaked on social media.

Barpeta School Inspector Ratul Kumar Das issued an order to all school heads in the district, informing them of the exam's cancellation.

He also mentioned that a new exam date would be announced later.

In the order, Das said, "I inform you that the English paper for the Class 9 annual examination, scheduled for March 20, is hereby postponed due to unavoidable circumstances."

An official from the district-level internal examination committee revealed that they discovered the paper leak on Wednesday evening.

"We suspect the paper went viral on social media....