Nearly one and a half years after investigating the question paper leak in Dhaka University’s Gha unit admission test in 2017, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police has pressed charges against as many as 125 people including 87 students of Dhaka University for their alleged involvement.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police of CID Sumon Kumar Das, also investigation officer of the case, filed the charge sheet to Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Sunday (Jun 23), court’s General Registration Officer (GRO) ASI Nizam Uddin told Bangla Tribune.
The court has set Jul 26 for indictment hearing in the case, Uddin said.
Of the 125 suspects, the CID has arrested 47. All but one those are behind bars confessed to their crimes. The rest 78 accused are on the run.
According to CID investigation, the leaking incident began from Oct 19, 2017 midnight.
Based on the information provided by a media worker, the detectives conducted an operation at two DU student halls the same night. Two students, Mamun and Rana, were arrested during the drive.
The next day, CID arrested admission-seeker Rafi from the exam hall after interrogating the detainees and a case was filed with Shahbagh police in this regard.
They also said the leaked questions of 2015 and 2016 admission tests were taught—by the ring—to admission-seeking students at a house in Savar's rural power plant area.
Later, police conducted the drive and arrested the mastermind of the ring, Natore District Sports official Rakibul Hasan Asami, press employee Khan Bahadur, his relative Saiful, and Rajshahi University students Bonny and Maruf.
Initially, the investigative team found all about the question paper leak from the printing press workers, but it was difficult to identify the digital device ring, said the CID.
Finally, the detectives arrested the others at different times last year, after the digital fraud ring was identified.
The mastermind of this ring is BKSP assistant director Olip Kumar Bishwas and Ibrahim, Mustafa Kamal, Hafizur Rahman Hafiz, and Tajul Islam were cooperating with him.
A huge amount of illegal wealth including Tk 200 million was found with the question-paper-leak-mastermind and his associates.
A case was filed with Uttara West police, under the money laundering ACT, to confiscate their assets.