The first-year students were detained from different halls of the university, CID Additional Superintendent of Police Minhazul Islam told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.
The ‘ringleaders’ of the fraud ring, Enamul Haque Akash and Navid Anzum Tonoy, were already in custody, he said. The arrests on Tuesday morning were based on information from them, he added.
“Through question paper leaks, fraud and the use of electronic devices, the group managed to pass the admission exams,” he said.
“Navid Anzum Tonoy is a student of geography at the Dhaka University. Akash only studied up to ninth grade. Tonoy’s job was to gather clients from among the applicants.”
“First we arrested three principal members of the ring. Later, we arrested two more. Akash was detained from Gazipur and Tonoy from Rangpur based on intelligence.”
“Seven are directly involved with the fraud. The seven we arrested today used these services to secure admission. They are being question at the DB offices.”
In the past few years such fraud rings have used small devices, made to look like credit cards, that hold mobile SIMs and small listening kits that can be placed inside an examinee’s ears.
The devices allow examinees to receive information from outside the exam hall. Several examinees using such devices were caught during this year’s Dhaka University admission exam and brought before the administration by police.