Staff Reporter :
The members of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested six people, including the mastermind of the gang, in connection with leaking question papers of nursing exams from different areas of Dhaka city.
The arrested persons are identified as Farida Khatun, 51, gang leader and wife of one Mirza Md Shamim from Palong, Shariatpur, Monoara Khatun, 52, wife of one Md Abdul Awal from Jafarpur, Chuadanga, Nargis Parvin, 47, from Sirajganj, Kohinur Begum, 65, wife of one Md Shafiqur Rahman Sadik from Saghata, Gaibandha, Md Islamil Hossain, 38, son of one late Safar Ali from Ghatail, Tangail and Md Ariful Islam, 37, son of one Md Riaz Uddin from Kalihati, Tangail.
According to RAB press briefing, a team of RAB’s Detective Branch arrested them after conducting separate operations in the city’s Mohakhali, Azimpur and Dhanmondi areas on Sunday night.
RAB claims that each question paper was sold for Taka 15,000. All the arrested are instructors and teachers of various reputed nursing institutes of the city.
RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Khandaker Al Moin gave this information at a press conference organized at RAB Media Center in the capital on Monday noon (August 22).
According to the RAB officials, the circle used to leak question papers of B.Sc. in nursing exams of University of Dhaka (affiliated nursing colleges of DU). Their illegal activities were exposed after they leaked the question of Comprehensive Nursing and Pathphysiology exam on August 13 recently.
Farida, Monoara, Nargis and Kohinoor have been working as instructors of a nursing college in the capital for the last 10 years.
In the past, they were members of question paper preparation committees of DU-affiliated nursing colleges. In 2016, Kohinoor joined a private nursing college as a principal.
Farida used to supply questions to Monoara and Nargis who used to provide the questions to Kohinoor. Kohinoor then used to sell the questions with the help of Ismail and Arif.
Earlier, the gang member Arif was arrested and jailed for the crime of leaking the senior staff nurse recruitment exam question paper 2017.
Khandaker Al Moin also said that they had come to know the names of some others in this circle, and the authorities of Dhaka University have been informed about them. The university authorities have cooperated wholeheartedly since the beginning in arresting the members of this question paper leak ring, he added.
