Probe ordered over solving ‘leaked’ HSC question paper

Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid has directed the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka to investigate the incident of solving ‘leaked’ question papers of the ongoing HSC examination reportedly on the BUET campus.

The minister on Sunday ordered the board chairman to submit a probe report over the incident in two weeks, said the office of the education minister.

Meanwhile, the education ministry asked detectives to take action against those who were involved in the incident on the campus of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Nurul Islam Nahid came up with the decision of probing the incident after a report was published in the daily Prothom Alo on Sunday, said officials of education minister.

According to the Prothom Alo report, a number of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinees started gathering on the BUET campus around one and a half hours before the HSC exam in search of leaked question paper’s solution on Saturday morning.

The students of BUET and Dhaka University allegedly were solving the ‘leaked’ question paper of HSC’s mathematics second paper around 8:10am before the examination began, the report added.

Source: Prothom Alo