Published on 12:00 AM, November 26, 2014

Five schoolteachers fined

Five schoolteachers fined

A mobile court here on Monday fined five schoolteachers Tk 3,000 each for leaking question paper of Bangla to the candidates of Primary School Certificate (PSC) Examinations.
In default, they have to suffer three months' imprisonment, said police and court sources.
The convicts are Sonia Ansari, headmaster and centre secretary of Chowdhurani Government Primary School, Sirajul Islam, assistant teacher of the same school, Shahadat Hossain, assistant teacher of Monglakuti Madhyapara Government Primary School, Sufia Begum, assistant teacher of Madhyapara Government Primary School and Ataur Rahman, assistant teacher of Kutubbas Government Primary School in Pirgachha upazila.
Being informed, duty officer at the examination center Md Moniruzzaman, an official of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) in Pirgachha, caught them red handed while  Sonia Ansari supplied answers to the examinees with the help of the four other convicts by SMS through mobile phone.