Upazila vice-chairman, 9 others held over question paper leaking

Ten persons, including an upazila vice-chairman, have been arrested over leaking of question papers and supplying of answers of government auditor recruitment tests.

They were arrested during drivers at Mirpur, Kakrail and Tejgaon areas from Friday noon to night.
The arrested persons included Mahbuba Nasrin Rupa, Awami League leader and female vice-chairman of Dhupchanchia upazila in Bogura district, and Mahmudul Hasan Azad, an official of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

The rest eight were Noman Siddiq, Al Amin Rony, Nahid Hasan, Shaheed Ullah, Tanzir Ahmed, Razu Ahmed, Hasibul Hasan and Rakibul Hasan.

Five bank cheaques, seven non-judicial stamps, 16 smart mobile phones, six feature mobile phones, 18 admit cards and three sets of question papers, five bank cheques, six electronics devices, were seized from their possessions.  

Dhaka Metropolitan Police's CID chief AKM Hafiz Akhter informed this at a press briefing on Saturday.

He said acting on a tip-off, a team of the DB police conducted a raid at 'New Shahin Hotel' at Kakrail and arrested two examinees from there. They adopted unfair means for getting jobs.

During interrogation, they revealed the names of some persons. Later, the DB team arrested four persons from a flat at Senpara Parbata area under Kafrul Police Station. During the arrest, devices, questions, and draft answer papers were also seized from their posessions.

Later, another DB team launched raid at BG Press High School Centre, and arrested the mastermind Rupa with cash and digital devices. Five more persons were also arrested based on Rupa's information. Cases against the arrested persons were underway.