Following a one-and-a-half-year investigation, the police have finalised a charge sheet against 87 students of Dhaka University and 38 others for their alleged involvement in question leak and cheating their way into the university.
The charge sheet will be submitted to court after the Eid-ul-Fitr, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, chief of the Criminal Investigation Department that ran the probe, told reporters at the CID headquarters in the capital yesterday.
The CID arrested 47 of the 125 suspects, including the alleged mastermind, Alip Kumar Biswas, a suspended assistant director of Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan (BKSP). Four more government officials and 21 DU students were among them, according to the CID.
All 47 except for one have already given statements before the magistrate, confessing their crimes, the CID chief said.
Most of the suspects, including Alip, are now out on bail.
The CID is now looking for 90 more DU students, who too passed the university admission tests through cheating with the help of this gang.
“A supplementary charge sheet will be submitted after we verify their names and addresses,” the official mentioned.
The DU authorities said they would take action against the accused students after getting the CID’s list.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, DU Vice Chancellor Prof Akhtaruzzaman said, “Earlier, we had taken action against those students involved with this racket ... We are yet to get the list of 87 students. Once we get it, we will take action as per the university rules.”
In January 2018, the DU authorities expelled 15 students over their involvement in question leak and cheating in university admission tests.
Police tracked down the gang members following a series of arrests since October 2017 when investigators raided two DU dormitories hours before the “Gha” unit admission test.
A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station under the public examinations law and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) act.
