Two months after an archaeology student was found enrolled at Jahangirnagar University with a fake freedom fighter certificate, allegedly with the help of an employee, the authorities launched an inquiry in April, but there has been no visible progress yet.

Registrar Abu Bakar Siddique told The Daily Star that the four-member committee, led by Prof Nrunnahar of chemistry, was yet to hand in the report.

Action will be taken based on the findings, he added.

The authorities had been silent over this matter before reports were published in newspapers in April, including the one headlined "JU student found enrolled with fake FF certificate" in The Daily Star on April 9.

So far the committee has sat only thrice and is still in the middle of the investigation.

Prof Aniruddho Kahaly, a member of the committee, said they had collected the newspaper reports and hoped to conclude the investigation "very soon".

The Daily Star reported that Umme Sultana who was then a second-year student got admitted under the quota, using a counterfeit freedom fighter certificate of her father.

She said an administrative staff, Billal Hossain, got the certificate but she did not know how. She just gave him Tk 3.9 lakh, she added.

Sultana said she got to contact Billal through two of her acquaintances, Alifa Ahmed and Reazul Islam, both third-year students of anthropology at that time.

She also quoted Alifa as saying Billal was a relative to her and he also helped Alifa get admitted to the university earlier.

Meanwhile, administrative officials could not show Alifa's admission documents to this correspondent.

Wishing anonymity, an employee said after completing her admission process by himself, Billal took away all the enrolment papers from the office.

Another staff, also wishing to be anonymous, said several employees and teachers were involved in admitting students illegally, and the nexus was thriving due to inaction.

Head of the committee, Prof Nurunnahar, said, "Due to lack of some technical support, we could not finish the investigation but I'm hopeful to submit the report after the Eid vacation."

Billal, the prime accused, denied his involvement in admitting the student with a fake freedom fighter certificate but admitted he knew Alifa Ahmed.

He said like every year a special admission committee recommended and finalised the list of candidates under the freedom fighter quota.

"Then it was sent to us to complete the admission formalities," he said, adding, "I did nothing but complied with the committee's decision."

Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Abul Hossain headed the committee, he said.

In the 2013-14 academic sessions, there were allegations that a staff had his grandchild admitted showing her as his daughter (under the ward quota), and another staff got an admission seeker on the waiting list enrolled in exchange for Tk 2 lakh.

A committee, formed to investigate the allegations, has yet to submit the report.