The Fact Finding Committee on Admission Forgery of Dhaka University has recommended cancellation of admissions of 210 students as the committee identified them fake, reports BSS.
Sources said, out of the 210 fake students, highest 92 managed admission to the Department of International Relations, 69 to the Department of Public Administration, 25 to the Department of Economics, nine to the Department of Political Science, seven to the Department of Management Studies, four to the Institute of Social Welfare and Research, three to the departments of Mathematics and Applied Chemistry each, two to the departments of Geography and Environment and Botany each, one each to the departments of Library and Information Science and Chemistry.
The probe committee was formed on October 10, 2006, in the wake of allegations of inconsistencies in admission papers of 11 students of 2004-2005 session of Department of Public Administration.
It submitted an interim report to the Syndicate. The report included 30 more incidents of fake admission in Public Administration, Economics, International Relations and some other departments in the same session. The authorities launched a drive at the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences in mid-March last year following the report, which hinted at existence of more fake students.
The committee so far submitted 11 reports about the admission forgery, DU Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof AFM Yusuf Haider told BSS. The Syndicate has cancelled admission of 210 students under different faculties and institutes so far, he added.
The sources said, a number of suspected students have meanwhile secured a court permission to attend classes and take part in examinations. A total of 67 suspected students had filed 56 writs with the hope that they might get off exploiting the loopholes in the system, sources said.
DU authorities penalise 210 fake students
FE Team | Published: August 09, 2008 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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