125 including 87 DU students charged for question paper leakage

Dhaka, June 23 – The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police yesterday pressed charges against 125 people including 87 students of Dhaka University (DU) in a case filed over their alleged involvement in question paper leak.
Of the accused, 47 have been arrested in the last one and a half years, and the rest 78 accused remain absconding. Of the arrestees, 46 have given their confessional statements.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of CID, Sumon Kumar Das, investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet before Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court. In the charge sheet it includes the alleged mastermind, Alip Kumar Biswas, a suspended assistant director of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP).
The accusers were involved in the university’s Gha unit admission test in 2017. Police pressed the charge sheet following an investigation for one and a half years.
CID also prayed to the court to allow the lawmen to submit a supplementary charge sheet against 89 more DU students, who passed the university’s admission tests through cheating with the help of this gang. Investigators are verifying the identities of the students.
Earlier, In 2017, this gang leaked question papers of DU’s “Gha” unit admission test from a printing press in the capital’s Indira Road. Some of the gang members, led by Natore District Sports Officer Rakibul Hasan, used to leak questions hours before the admission tests, they mentioned.
A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station in this connection in October 2017 under the Public Examinations Law and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act. – Staff Reporter