At least 80 active members of a racket have earned hundreds of crores of taka by illegally admitting hundreds of students to medical colleges in the last 17 years.
CID chief Mohammad Ali Mia, additional inspector general of police, said this at a press conference at the CID Headquarters in Malibagh on Sunday.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested 12 people, including seven doctors, in connection with leaking question papers of the medical college admission test.
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Among the arrestees, four were associated with the BNP and one with the Jamaat-e-Islami, said the CID chief.
Mohammad Ali said that around 15 lakh students from all over the country will take part in this year' HSC exams scheduled to start on August 17.
Every year, a gang becomes active when public examinations start and leaks questions in various ways, he added.
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“We have already identified many fraud members involved in the question paper leak of SSC, HSC, Dhaka University admission test and BCS and brought them under law.”
Recently, the cyber police of the CID found a huge syndicate that regularly leaks questions in the admission tests of the medical colleges of the country.
Following this, CID conducted drives and arrested them, he added.