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Making quick bucks from DU admission

Gang arrested for leaking admission test questions, supplying answers to examinees thru' text messages

Rafiul Islam and Protik Chakraborty
The Rapid Action Battalion has busted a gang of 13 involved in leaking out questions and supplying answers to examinees through SMS during the admission tests of Dhaka University.
The gang members, who include a Chhatra League leader and a college teacher, were picked up from separate places in the capital in the last two days.
The Rab also arrested eight examinees from three exam centres during Gha-unit admission test of the university yesterday and seized the cell phones they were carry-
ing to receive the answers.
Besides, 17 other examinees were caught by DU authorities with answers in their cell phone inbox. Handed over to the police, they said some teachers of coaching centres received Tk 4-5 lakh for texting the answers.
The university, however, has not cancelled yesterday's tests.
“Most of the perpetrators have been caught. Around 2,000 DU teachers and officials visited the centres and caught those who were resorting to forgery," Social Science Faculty Dean Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed told The Daily Star last night. "So we
will not cancel the exams."
Also yesterday, police detained seven aspirants who received answers on mobile phones at different centres during Jagannath University’s admission test.
Earlier this month, the DU authorities caught 32 aspirants with answers in their mobile phone inbox during the admission test. Last year, 17 people were sued in connection with the same crime.
On September 19, police detained 13 aspirants resorting to forgery during Jagannath University admission tests and a vice president of the university unit Chhatra League helping them from outside.
Commander Mufti Mahmud Khan, Rab's legal and media wing director, at the battalion's headquarters yesterday told the press that the arrestees had confessed to the crime and hunt was on for other members of the gang.
During interrogation, some of the arrested 13 said invigilators hired by the gang take snaps of question papers
with their smart phones shortly before or after the examinations to send those to an expert group through SMS or email.
The expert group, which is assigned to solve the questions within the shortest possible time, is sometimes sent photocopies of the question papers through office bearers, Rab officials said.
Another group texts the answers to the cell phones of examinees who have contracts with the gang. The night before the exam, the applicants are given new phone numbers.
For this, an examinee has to pay Tk 1.5 lakh to Tk 2 lakh. The Rab has a list of over 100 DU admission seekers who had made such deals.
Of the arrested 13, Khaledur Rahman alias Khaled, who introduced himself as an activist of Tejgaon Jubo League, used to manage seats for their selected aspirants on back benches with the help of office bearers and text answers to examinees during tests.
Jamil Khan Mitul, a third-year student of Shaikh Burhanuddin Post
Graduate College, collected question papers from their selected invigilators while Sukur Ali alias Nirob, a second-year Jagannath student, coordinates solving of questions.
Zubayer Ahmed, a lecturer of Begum Anwara Girls School & College, is one of those invigilators who ensure selected examinees can carry and use cell phones at the exam halls.
Mozammel Haque, international affairs secretary of DU Chhatra League and a senior officer of Agrani Bank, makes deals with the admission seekers, Rab officials said.
Khaled said before last year's DU admission tests, he earned Tk 80,000 after ensuring admission of three applicants through a person named Alamgir. Thus, he found an "easy way" of making money and formed his gang this year.
He added at least 30 such gangs now operate centring on admission tests of DU, Jahangirnagar University and Jagannath University. Most of the gangs operate from different DU halls and adjoining areas.