Question Paper Trade
JU students block road to free teacher
Students of Jahangirnagar University demonstrated yesterday demanding immediate release of a teacher who was arrested Friday in connection with selling fake question papers for medical college admission test.
About 100 students of the government and politics department obstructed Dhaka-Aricha highway for about 30 minutes and boycotted final examination scheduled for yesterday. Some teachers of the department also joined the demonstration.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained ASM Firoz-ul Hasan, lecturer of the department and an assistant proctor of the university, and his friend Tariqul Islam, a former leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, along with 19 others at Shyamoli and Khilgaon in the city early Friday for selling fake question papers to admission aspirants, saying those were "leaked question papers".
The demonstrating students claimed that the teacher just went to Shyamoli to visit his friend Tariqul Islam that day, and he was not involved in the incident.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Erfan Ullah yesterday rejected bail prayer of the 21 detained persons and sent them to jail after Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police produced them before the court.
Meanwhile, 78 pro-BNP teachers at JU signed a statement demanding ASM Firoz-ul Hasan be relieved of all educational and administrative responsibilities of the university.
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