Leaking Admission, Recruitment Question Papers: Two bankers among six arrested by CID

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police have arrested six people, including two bank officials in connection with question leak of different university admission and bank recruitment tests.

The arrestees are Manik Kumar Pramanik, a senior officer of Agrani Bank; Rakibul Hasan Shanto, a senior officer of Janata Bank; Miraz, Rashed, Shafiqul and Ripon.

They were arrested recently following an investigation into a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station in 2018. Of them, Shanto, Rashed and Miraz gave confessional statement to a Dhaka court recently.

"Based on Shanto's statement, a team of CID arrested Manik along with his two accomplices Shafiqul and Ripon from Rajshahi on Tuesday," a source at the CID, wishing not to be named, told The Daily Star.

Confirming the arrest, SM Ashrafuzzaman, special superintendent of CID's Cyber Investigation and Operation, said details will be shared at a press conference today.

According to CID, the racket was leaking questions of different university admissions including Dhaka University and medical entrance, important government admissions and recruitment exams, including various banks, through digital devices.

Following the case filed with Tejgaon Police Station, CID first recently arrested Miraz and Rashed -- both private university students. Based on information obtained from them, they arrested Shanto.

According to the CID official, Rashed is a question solver. Ripon is a public university student in Dhaka and Shafiqul is a trader who is an associate of Manik.

Earlier in 2018, police arrested a student named Nafiul Tahsin from Tejgaon Government Science College, in connection with admission question leak of Dhaka University's 'Ka' unit.

SM Kamrul Ahsan, Chief Security Officer of Dhaka University, then filed a case against Nafiul, with Tejgaon Police Station.

Later in November 2018, CID interrogated Nafiul. In a report submitted to the court, it said the racket was using digital tools and social media to leak DU admission papers, in exchange for hefty sums of money.

Earlier, CID investigated a case filed over DU 'Gha' unit question leak in 2017 and pressed charges against 125 people, including 87 DU students and a few Chhatra League leaders, in June, 2019.

After investigation, CID found that the questions were mainly leaked in two ways: from the printing press the night before the exams and through digital devices minutes before the tests started.

Job or admission seekers were given the answers via tiny earpieces a few minutes into the exams.