Medical colleges: ‘Hundreds enrolled through leaked questions’
Staff Reporter :
They are doctors by profession and some are owners of coaching centers across the country.
But from 2001 to 2017, in the last 16 years, the gang leaked the questions of the medical college admission test at least 10 times.
And crores of taka have been amassed by the gang through this way, said Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) chief Mohammad Ali Mia.
CID has already arrested 12 people including seven doctors who were involved in the question leak by conducting raids in different parts of the country including Dhaka recently.
CID chief, an additional inspector general of police, was speaking at a press conference held at the headquarters of the department on Sunday noon.
The arrested persons have been identified as Moyez Uddin Ahmed, Soheli Jaman, Md Abu Raihan, ZM Salehin Alias Shovon, Md Zobaidur Rahman alias Jony, Jillur Hasan alias Rony, Imrul Kayes alias Himel, Jahirul Islam Bhuiyan alias Muktar, Rawshan Ali alias Himu, Akteruzzaman Tushar, Jahir Uddin Ahmed alias Bappi and Abdul Kuddus Sarker.
In the press briefing CID chief said that two persons named Jashim Uddin and Mohammad Salam were arrested in 2020 in connection with a question leak case.
Jashim Uddin was the mastermind of the gang. His cousin Salam works as a machine operator in the health education press.
They gave deposition in the court under section 64. The names of the 12 persons appeared in the depositions of Jashim and Salam.
The CID chief Mohammad Ali Mia said they came to know that the members
of the gang leaked question papers 10 times from 2001 to the next 16 consecutive years.
The gang members amassed occupied a huge amount of money through leaking the questions illegally.
During the drives, many bank cheques and admit cards were recovered from them.
The arrested persons made bank transactions worth millions from their accounts.
There would be further investigation into whether the arrested persons were guilty in the money laundering prevention act.
CID also said, of the arrested persons Moyez Uddin Ahmed and Soheli Jaman are husband and wife.
He got involved with the gang through a coaching centre named ‘Fame’. He got hundreds of students admitted to medical colleges illegally by leaking question papers.
Moyez Uddin was a leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir and became known as a pro-Jamaat physician, CID officials said.
According to the CID said M Salehin Alias Shovon, one the ringleaders of medical question leak gangs, is an accused in the case over leaking medical admission test question.
Shovon, who once was arrested by RAB in 2015, was a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chattra Dal in Sir Salimullah Medical College.
According to the CID, Zobaidur Rahman alias Jony, owner of Medico coaching centre, got involved in this ring in 2005.
Jony was the president of Chattra Dal’s Sir Salimullah Medical College unit and became the central health secretary of Chattra dal later. Currently, he is the central health secretary of Juba dal.
CID said Zillur Hasan, a physician at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), was involved in this gang in 2005.
Currently, he is involved with Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) and a member of BNP’s physician team that treat injured BNP leaders.
