Fake students still attend classes at DU
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Fake students are at liberty on the Dhaka University campus, freely attending all academic activities and classes in different departments as the process of investigation to identify such elements is no more active over the last few months, reports BSS.
Official sources worry that if such a trend continues, the fake students will be able to leave the campus with degrees on completion of their academic sessions.
The University authorities recently captured and handed over a fake student, Dilruba Khanam Taposhi to the police.
She was detained by the security department from the administrative building Thursday. The university's security officer S M Kamrul Ahsan filed a complaint against her with the Shahbagh Police Station. Taposhi was charged with 'deception and collusion' while taking admission in the university.
DU Proctor KM Saiful Islam said Taposhi got admission by bribing a university official Abul Hossain, a friend of her father Abdul Karim Bhuiyan. Hossain was later suspended.
Taposhi of public administration department was suspended along with 20 others in March 2009 on charges of irregularities during admission in 2004-05 academic session, professor Tajmeri SA Islam, a Syndicate member said Wednesday .
But she continued her studies, took part in the examinations and she slipped off the radar to complete her graduation.
The matter of having her graduation certificate came to light Tuesday when she tried to take admission in the master's programme.
It also formed a 10-strong committee headed by pro-vice-chancellor Harun-or- Rashid to investigate the incident.
Earlier, the fact finding committee on admission forgery of Dhaka University, formed over three years ago, identified 242 fake students and recommended cancellation of their admission. DU syndicate cancelled admission of all 242 fake students.
The committee was formed on October 10, 2006, in the wake of allegations of inconsistencies in admission papers of 11 students of the 2004-2005 session of the Department of Public Administration.
The sources said that a total of 67 suspected students filed 56 writ petitions with the High Court, hoping that they might be able to escape the eyes of concerned authorities through the loopholes of admission system.
Official sources worry that if such a trend continues, the fake students will be able to leave the campus with degrees on completion of their academic sessions.
The University authorities recently captured and handed over a fake student, Dilruba Khanam Taposhi to the police.
She was detained by the security department from the administrative building Thursday. The university's security officer S M Kamrul Ahsan filed a complaint against her with the Shahbagh Police Station. Taposhi was charged with 'deception and collusion' while taking admission in the university.
DU Proctor KM Saiful Islam said Taposhi got admission by bribing a university official Abul Hossain, a friend of her father Abdul Karim Bhuiyan. Hossain was later suspended.
Taposhi of public administration department was suspended along with 20 others in March 2009 on charges of irregularities during admission in 2004-05 academic session, professor Tajmeri SA Islam, a Syndicate member said Wednesday .
But she continued her studies, took part in the examinations and she slipped off the radar to complete her graduation.
The matter of having her graduation certificate came to light Tuesday when she tried to take admission in the master's programme.
It also formed a 10-strong committee headed by pro-vice-chancellor Harun-or- Rashid to investigate the incident.
Earlier, the fact finding committee on admission forgery of Dhaka University, formed over three years ago, identified 242 fake students and recommended cancellation of their admission. DU syndicate cancelled admission of all 242 fake students.
The committee was formed on October 10, 2006, in the wake of allegations of inconsistencies in admission papers of 11 students of the 2004-2005 session of the Department of Public Administration.
The sources said that a total of 67 suspected students filed 56 writ petitions with the High Court, hoping that they might be able to escape the eyes of concerned authorities through the loopholes of admission system.