Sixty-seven primary terminal exams candidates, 12 schoolteachers and three non-governmental agency officials were sued in Jaipurhat on Thursday in connection with cheating in the exams hall.
The acting RB Government High School headmaster Afzal Hossain, also in charge of the primary terminal examinations centre, filed the case.
In the case document, the headmaster said, ‘Assistant commissioner (land) Nure Mahbuba Joya and executive magistrate Jhumur Bala spotted 67 fake students taking the primary terminal exams on November 23. All the students were from Ananda schools.’
‘The deputy commissioner, social welfare officer and high officials of the district administration earlier released the students detained on undertaking after they had been fined Tk 150 each as the students were juvenile,’ according to the case document.
Twelve teachers of the Ananda schools and MSK director Enamul Haq, SDS executive director Ayesha Akther and ASSET director Nurul Islam, who helped students in cheating in the exams, were also accused in the case.
Local people said the non-governmental organisations run the school under a project on government grants for poor children and others who dropped out of the mainstream education.
They collect students from different schools to take the exams from the institution, local people said.
The district primary education officer, Nabuwat Hossain, told New Age 3,379 students of Ananda schools, run 161 NGOs, had registered and were taking the exams. After the incident in the RB Government School, only 570 students of Ananda schools are now taking the exams, he said.
‘After the RB school incident, others who were taking the exams stopped going to the exams centre,’ he added.
The Jaipurhat police officer-in-charge, Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, said the police were trying to arrest the accused.
