Khan Bahadur, a printing press employee, leaked questions from the press with the help of a strong network, Molla Nazrul Islam, Special Police Superintendent of the Organized Crime Department of CID, has said. CID arrested Khan Bahadur, 28, on charges of involvement in the leakage of the Dhaka University admission test question paper. Khan Bahadur worked at the press where the questions of the admission test were printed. On Wednesday, in a press briefing, Molla Nazrul Islam, Special Police Superintendent of the Organized Crime Department of the CID, said that Khan Bahadur was  arrested from Indira Road in the capital on Wednesday. He said: “The ring has been eliminated by arresting Khan Bahadur.”

Molla Nazrul Islam said that Pabna district sports reporter Rakibul Hasan Isami, who was in the racket, was now in police custody. A certain Saiful Islam was detained in connection with question paper leakage from Jamalpur on Wednesday.

Khan Bahadur was arrested based on his statements, he added. Molla Nazrul Islam said Khan Bahadur knew Saiful Islam, and Saiful Islam was known to Raqibul Hasan. These three suspects supplied the questions papers. All of them have been detained.

Molla Nazrul said the CID had arrested 22 people in the last three months in connection with the leak. The CID official said Bahadur was a press employee and was the main person who leaked the questions.

Over the last few years, a thin device that looks like a credit card has been used to cheat in the exams. It has a mobile SIM fitted to it. It has a small listening kit too. Through this device, the examinee could get all the answers from outside the hall. This year, DU handed over several students to the police for using this kind of device during the admission test.

On October 20, Dhaka University’s ‘D’ unit admission test was held. Earlier in the day, the media got the news of the English section question leak. In the initial investigation, CID said the question was leaked using the digital device.

On October 20, on the night of the admission test of the ‘D’ unit of DU, varsity students Mohiuddin Rana and Abdullah Al Mamun were arrested from Amar Ekushey Hall and Dr Muhammad Shahidullah Hall.

Later, on the basis of information received from Mohiuddin Rana and Abdullah Al Mamun from Nov 1 to 3, CID arrested Daffodil University student Ishraq Hossain Rafi, Farzad Sobhan Nafi and Anin Chowdhury, one of the main accused in the gang.

Earlier, in November, CID arrested Najid Anjum Tanay, a geography student of DU, believed to be the key person behind the DU admission question paper leak.

In court, Najid Anjum Tanay was named as the main culprit for the delivery of the digital devices and question leaks in the confessional statements of the two accused. He named several other members of the gang in his confession.

According to the confession, on November 1, a student of Daffodil University, Nafi, was arrested from Agargaon in Dhaka. Based on the information provided by Nafi, another activist of the gang, Anin, was arrested on November 3.

Tanay told the CID interrogators that in 2015 and 2016, they had helped admit students to several public universities, including DU and Jagannath University, by using a digital device and by leaking the question paper.

Based on information provided by Tanay, some others were also identified. Seven students were arrested. They were Tanvir Ahmed Mallik, Md Baijid, Nahid Iftekhar, Faraden Ahmed Sabbir, Prosenjit Das, Rifat Hossain, and Azizul Hakim. The arrested students were being interrogated, said Sharmin Jahan.

The arrestees have told the CID about all the possible fraud that may have taken place in the admission test. All information is being verified.