Staff Reporter :
The administration of Islamic University (IU) on Monday suspended a teacher, expelled a student and cancelled admission of 140 other students in connection with the first year admission test question paper leakage.
Besides, the university authorities also issued show cause notice against two other teachers and suspended three employees over the question paper leakage. The two teachers have also been relieved of all responsibilities relating to admission exams for two years.
The decision was taken at a syndicate meeting of the university headed by Vice-Chancellor Professor Rashid Ashkari.
The suspended teacher is Nurul Islam, Assistant Professor of Department of Mathematics. The IU administration also barred him from participating in all academic activities for two years.
The show cause notices were served against Mizanur Rahman, Associate Professor and Chairman of Department of Mathematics, and Altaf Hossain Russel, Assistant Professor and Chairman of Department of Statistics.
Monojit Kumar, a student of Mathematics Department, was expelled from the university. The employees who have been suspended are-Alauddin and Saiful Islam, the Registrar of the university told journalists. Besides, Chairman of Finance and Banking Department Md. Asaduzzaman has been suspended temporarily for Ph. D-related irregularities.
The IU authorities will arrange a fresh admission test soon as they cancelled admission of 140 students who sat for the examination.
“The university authorities took the decision as the probe body formed earlier to investigate the incident found a teacher, an administrative officer and three employees involved in the question paper leakage for the first year admission test of ‘F’ unit of the 2016-2017 session, ” a teacher preferring not be named said.
Earlier on Saturday, the probe body submitted the report.
On January 25, the university authorities formed a three-member probe body headed by Prof Mustafa Kamal of Mathematics Department to investigate the allegations of question paper leakage and result forgery in the Bachelor (Honors) ‘F’ unit admission test under the session 2016-17.
According to the University Registrar Office, complaints were raised from various quarters after publication of the results of ‘F’ unit. Mathematics Department Professor Dr. Mustafa Kamal was the convener, while Professor Dr. Ahsanul Ambia and Proctor Professor Dr. Mahbubur Rahman were the members of the committee.
It was alleged that IU Chhatra League unit and some of the teachers were involved with the result forgery and question paper leakage.
Earlier, President and Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League of IU unit Saiful Islam and Amit Kumar in a written complaint to the university authorities alleged that the question paper for the first year admission test of ‘F’ unit held in December last year had been leaked.
