Staff Reporter :
Since 2013, the question papers of medical college and dental college admission tests were leaking from the central press of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) repeatedly. Leaking the question, a ring took away Tk crores from the people.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Sumon Kumar Das revealed the information at a press briefing over the arrest of five members of a question-leaking ring at CID headquarters in the city on Thursday noon.
Meanwhile, CID has arrested at least five people, including the mastermind of the ring Jasim Uddin alias Munnu, from the city’s Mirpur area recently.
The other arrestees are Parvez Khan, Jakir Hossain Dipu, Sanwar Hossain and Mohaiminul Islam Bandhan.
Earlier, the CID official came to know through various reliable sources that the question papers of medical and dental admission testes were printed from the press under the Department of Health since 1988.
The police official informed that an investigation into question paper leaks has been going on for a long time. Members of this ring were linked to this press or some of them had family members associated with the press.
During the investigation, CID found that many people, including some students, were involved with the crime.Till now, more than 50 people have been arrested by CID in this connection, he added.
As the investigation progressed, CID officials learnt that two persons – Sanwar and Bandhan – were involved in the Dhaka University and medical admission test question paper leaks. Later, CID arrested both of them from Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Natore on July 19. That time, cheques of Tk2.27 crore were recovered from Bandhan.
The CID had filed a case against 150 to 200 people, including 14 named, with Mirpur police station.
“We know that there is a racket of 50 people active here. We are working on capturing the whole sing,” CID official added.
Back in 2017, a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station prompted CID to investigate the question paper leak of Dhaka University’s admission test.
Later, CID arrested 48 people for alleged involvement and of them, 47 gave confessional statements before the court. CID also filed a charge-sheet against 125 people in the case.
It is mentionable that, in 2015 huge number of students took part in movement protesting the question leake. That time students demanded that the admission test would be canceled and re-tested. But the admission test was not canceled due to lack of evidence.
