16 held with fake Janata Bank question papers
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained 16 people from a city hotel in the early hours yesterday and seized 'fake' question papers for a recruitment test for the post of executive officer at Janata Bank.
Lt Col Kamrul Islam, commanding officer of Rab-10, said the elite force received a tip off on the matter and raided the hotel at Siddique Bazar in old Dhaka around 3:00am.
The team recovered copies of a handwritten question paper containing 100 questions from the detained men, the official said.
The arrested men claimed they were candidates for the Janata Bank exam. They said they made a deal with a man named Khokon who was to provide them with the question paper for the bank's recruitment test in return for taka 4 lakh. The money was to be paid after the examination was held.
The two-hour long recruitment test, meanwhile, was held at 10:00 am yesterday. It was attended by 78,000 job seekers.
The Rab authority however did not find any similarity between the actual test paper and the seized question papers.
We are still trying to arrest Khokon, Lt Col Kamrul said.
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