A student has also been expelled in this connection while admission of over 100 students cancelled, who reportedly bought the leaked question papers at variable cost from Tk 1.0 lakh to 1.5 lakh per set to easily pass the test. The action followed after an investigation headed by a teacher found evidence of their involvement that included stealing of over 68 question papers from a lot and tampering of results to pass some students who paid for the question papers. As per report the question papers were stolen at least two days before the test thus destroying the credibility of a fair admission test. The Varsity Authorities will hold fresh admission test now but who can make sure leakage will not take place again. Admission is a big business involving crore of takas and people are invariably around there to make good of it.
What is spectacularly noticeable in this case is that the President and the General Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League — the student wing of Awami League — made written complaint to Kushtia Islamic University authorities about the question leakage. They blamed some other members of their own organization for the mischief pointing out that only because of internal squabbles, the matter came to the light and was taken to the Varsity Authority to punish them. We suggest since the leakage has taken place, perpetrators must be punished but factional quarrel within the ruling party leaves many thing unanswered raising bigger question over the whole issue.
As it appears question leakage of public examinations, such as SSC, HSC and even BCS examination is almost a regular phenomenon and as the Kushtia Islamic University case suggests it is mainly happening with involvement of people politically affiliated to the ruling party. Their involvement is everywhere. Only they can dare to break the security to bring out question papers with confidence that nobody will be able to punish them. They enjoy a kind of impunity in our highly charged political environment. Their network work is in close touch with people dealing with holding admission tests and other public examinations at various levels rendering the government totally incompetent to deal with them. The discovery of leakage at Islamic University is a case by default but nonetheless welcome. We only hope real perpetrators will be punished.
