Man sent to jail over govt recruitment exam question leak

A Dhaka court on Sunday sent an accused to jail in a case filed over the leaking of question papers for the recruitment examination for the post of assistant upazila youth development officer under the Department of Youth Development.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam passed the order, said Prosecution Division Sub-Inspector Rokonuzzaman.

Earlier, the Investigation Officer of the case and Additional Superintendent of Police Mahmudul Hasan of the CID’s Cyber Investigation and Operations unit produced Toukir Ibn Sadek, the accused, before the court and sought an order to keep him in jail.

According to the petition, important information regarding the incident was obtained from Toukir during interrogation following his arrest. He also disclosed the identities of several associates allegedly involved in the offence.

Keeping him in jail was necessary for the sake of a proper investigation, the petition said, adding that there had not been sufficient time to interrogate him in detail.

Earlier, Toukir was arrested from the capital’s Gabtoli area at around 6:30am on Sunday.

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The preliminary examination for 242 vacant posts of assistant youth development officer under the Department of Youth Development was scheduled to be held on 10 October. A total of 3.19 lakh jobseekers had applied for the posts.

The examination was scheduled to begin at 11:00am, but the authorities suspended it at 10:03am after confirming that the question paper had been leaked.

A case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on 11 October, following which the SRB launched an investigation into the incident.