10 SSC examinees held with leaked Chemistry question paper, answers in Natore

Law enforcers detained 10 SSC examinees with leaked question papers on their phones today from an examination centre in Lalpur upazila of Natore.

Upon secret information, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) conducted the drive at Chandpur High School exam centre with a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Additional District Magistrate Razzaqul Islam around 9:20am.

All the detained students were caught red handed with the leaked question paper and answers of Chemistry in this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination on their smartphones, said Nazrul Islam, the UNO of Lalpur upazila.

The detainees were taken to the upazila headquarters for further interrogation, the UNO said.

“Hopefully, after further investigations we will be able to find out the main culprits behind the question paper leak,” he added.

This year's SSC examination has seen an ongoing spate of question leak despite strict measures of the government.

On February 12, the government formulated a strict guideline of banning mobile phones around the vicinity of exam centres. The order was to arrest anyone found with mobile in the area.

But nothing seems to work.

This has to be the largest ever reported spate of question paper leak with questions being available ahead of almost all the examinations of the SSC, that started from February 1.

On February 13 in Chittagong, 24 science group students of Ideal School and College in Patia were expelled from the exam. Of them, seven had screenshots of the "Ga" set on their mobile phones and tablet computers while two others had answers written on their notebooks.

In Dhaka, Rab detained an undergraduate student in Agargaon area on February 13. He allegedly took money from people through mobile banking in exchange for SSC questions, according to a Rab press release.

This incident drawn fierce criticisms and prompted a Jatiya Party lawmaker to demand in parliament the immediate resignation of Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid.

Source: thedailystar