Fake DU Students
Probe body finds 10 more involved in enrolment
DU Correspondent
A fact-finding committee formed to investigate the incidents of enrolment of fake students at Dhaka University (DU) yesterday identified 10 more people involved in the cheating.It found that seven or eight student leaders mainly from the Awami League-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), two university employees and a teacher of Mirpur Bangla College in the city are involved in enrolling students at the university through fraudulent means, committee sources said. The authorities filed a general diary against the teacher, Haifizur Rahman, with Shahbagh Police Station. The sources, however, declined to disclose the names of student leaders and DU employees for the sake of investigation. One of the two DU employees involved works at international relations department. At a meeting yesterday, the committee received documents of nine more fake students of the international relations department of 1999-2000 and 2000-01 sessions from the department authorities who identified the students last week. The committee, headed by Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof AFM Yusuf Haider, has identified a total of 170 fake students since it was formed on October 10, 2006. On June 5, the DU Syndicate cancelled studentships of 77 fake students.
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