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Question paper leak: 10 get different jail terms, 114 acquitted

  • Update Time : Sunday, September 15, 2024
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TDS Desk:

A Dhaka court Sunday sentenced 10 accused to various terms of imprisonment and acquitted 114 others in a case filed at Shahbagh police station on the alleged question paper leak. Seven of the convicts were sentenced to 4 years and three to 2 years in jail.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque’s court announced the verdict on Sunday.

On October 20, 2017, CID raided two residential halls of Dhaka University and arrested two students named Mamun and Rana. Based on the information given by them, a student named Rafi was arrested from the examination hall the next day. On that day, the CID filed a case under section 63 of the Information and Communication Technology Act of 2006 and section 9(b) of the Public Examination Act of 1980 at Shahbag police station.

In 2019, investigating officer CID Senior ASP Suman Kumar Das filed a charge sheet in the court. A total of 125 people including 87 students of Dhaka University were accused in the charge sheet.

Later, Dhaka’s cyber tribunal acquitted all the accused under Section 63 of the Information and Communication Technology Act. Under section 9(b) of the Public Examination Act of 1980, the trial of 124 people began in the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court of Dhaka.

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