5 teachers punished for solving leaked questions

A mobile court yesterday arrested two principals and three madrasa teachers for solving the English 2nd paper questions during the exams at Uzirpur Dakhil exam centre in Barisal district.

On secret information, Jhumur Bala, the upazila nirbahi officer of Uzirpur, and a police team raided a house near the exam hall and caught three teachers red-handed while they were solving the question paper. The two principals were arrested from the exam centre, the UNO said.  

The arrestees are Muktar Hossain, principal of Kalihata Alim Madrasa and also the superintendent of the exam hall, Md Ibrahim, principal of Sakhrail Madrasa and also member of the examination committee, and Md Ramij Uddin, Md Rafiqul Islam and Md Faruk Hossain, teachers of Sakhrail Madrasa in Uzirpur.

The principals took photographs of the question papers and handed them to some teachers who were ready to answer the questions, the arrested teachers said.

Two cell phones that were used for question leakage were seized from their possession, and some photographs of the question papers were found in them, the UNO said.

The two principals have been suspended from their exam duties.

The arrestees were produced before a mobile court led by the UNO, also the executive magistrate, said Md Nurul Islam, officer-in-charge of Uzirpur Police Station. 

English teacher Faruk was awarded one year's imprisonment. The others were fined Tk 20,000 each, in default to suffer one month's imprisonment, added the OC.

"I did not know anything about the question leakage and allegations against me are false. I did not even know that I was fined by a mobile court," Muktar Hossain said.