Published on 12:49 PM, November 21, 2017

8 DU students among 9 held for ‘admission test forgery’

It looks like a credit card, but it's not. Beneath the cover of a credit card is actually a communications device, used to cheat during the October 20 DU admission test. After inserting a SIM card into it, the device is kept in the pockets or taped to the chests of admission seekers, left. The answers to the questions come from outside the hall through the earpieces. Photo: Collected
Star Online Report

Detectives today said they have arrested nine students, including eight of Dhaka University, in connection with their alleged involvement in admission test forgery.

The arrestees were identified as DU students Navid Anjum Tonoy, Tanvir Ahmed Mallick, Md Bayjeed, Nahid Iftekhar, Fardin Ahmed Sabbir, Prasenjit Das, Rifat Hosain, Azizul Hakim, and one Enamul Haque Akash, a student of SSC programme under Bangladesh Open University, a press release of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said today.  

Among them, Tonoy and Akash were allegedly involved in leaking question papers of admission tests of different universities including DU using digital devices, and the seven others got admitted to DU allegedly by resorting to illegal means, it said.

They were arrested from different places on different dates in connection with a case filed with Shahbagh Police Station on October 20 over admission test forgery, it added.

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