e_Paper 27-11-2016

News 7
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Jubo League leader abducts
schoolgirl to marry
• Abdullah Al Dulal, Rajshahi
Eight held
over supplying
answers
for SUST
admission test
• Mohammed Serajul Islam,
Sylhet
Police arrested eight people from
Sylhet yesterday in connection
with supplying answers to the examinees
of the honours admission
test in Shahjalal University of Science
and Technology (SUST).
Police did not disclose their
identities yet.
The police also recovered electronic
devices from them, which
were supposed to be used for supplying
answers to questions of the
test, said Akhter Hossain, officer-incharge
of Jalalabad police station.
Three of the arrestees are the
supplier of answers, while the rest
are the admission aspirants.
Seven of the detainees were
arrested from Kaligaon Bus Stand
nearby SUST campus, while they
got down from a bus there around
6am.
Later, based on their information,
the law enforcers detained
the other one, who is a first year
student of SUST, from a hall of the
university.
For the last three days, the police
had been trying to arrest the
gang.
Earlier, police had received an
information that a group miscreants
had indulged such types of activities
for long and the gang might
indulge in such type of activities,
said the OC.
“We will disclose the details
information of the arrestees after
completing the interrogation,
said Akhter Hossain to reporters
around 6:30pm . •
A leader of Jubo League, Awami
League’s youth affiliate, in Rajshahi
has allegedly abducted a tenth-grader
schoolgirl at gun point to marry her.
“Jubo League leader Sohel Rana
along with 12 activists on six motor
cycles broke into my house at Taherpur
municipality of Bagmara upazila on
Friday evening, firing in the air, whisked
away my daughter” said the girl’s
father.
“They assaulted the family members,
including women before taking
away the girl at gunpoint,” said he.
The family members alleged that
the girl was taken to the mayor’s home
and immediately married to Rana.
Jubo League activists, who were
around the victim’s house after the
abduction, made sure that they could
not go to the police, alleged victim’s
family members.
They claimed that Taherpur Jubo
League President Asadul Islam, Chhatra
League President Korban Ali, Ward
Unit Awami League President Mizanur
Rahman and several other leaders of
the ruling party and its affiliates were
involved in the abduction.
The girl’s brother said that they
were later called to the mayor’s home.
“They threatened to kill us if we reported
the matter to the police,” he said.
The family members claimed that
they had not reported the incident
to police in view of life threats. They
alleged the local mayor was involved.
Selim Hossain, officer-in-charge of
Bagmara police station, said they had
moved to rescue the girl, but were later
informed by Taherpur Mayor Abul Kalam
Azad that she was safe and sound
at his home.
“Rana and the girl were in a relationship.
She was brought from her home
as the family rejected the marriage
proposal,” said Rahman.
When contacted, Mayor Azad said
the girl had not been married off with
Rana and problems between two
families over the issue had been solved.
Kazi (Marriage registrar) Abdul
Malek said he had not registered the
marriage as the girl was below 18. •
Bangladesh General Students’ Parishad Rajshahi unit stages a human chain demanding extension of government job age limit
to 35. The photo was taken from Zero point area in Rajshahi city
AZAHAR UDDIN
Transport workers call strike on Tuesday
• FM Mizanur Rahaman,
Chittagong
Transport workers called for a
24-hour strike yesterday to be enforced
in the all routes of greater
Chittagong on November 29 with
a nine-point demand including an
end to police harassment, alleged
BRTC corruption and constructing
of bus terminals.
The strike was called by Bangladesh
Sarak Paribahan Sramik
Federation (Bangladesh Road
Transport Workers’ Federation)
Chittagong regional chapter.
It will be enforced from 6am on
November 29, said the transport
workers’ leaders.
“The transport strike will be
enforced in all routes of greater
Chittagong including Cox’s Bazar,
Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachari
district to press home
our nine-point demand while the
transport workers will go on tougher
movement if the demands are
not met immediately,” said Md
Musa, president of Bangladesh Sarak
Paribahan Sramik Federation’s
Chittagong regional committee.
He made the statement at a
press conference held at Chittagong
Press Club’s Engineer Abdul
Khaled auditorium.
“Police harass transport workers
and drivers with excuses such as
document checking, vehicle overload,
over-speeding and no-parking
while the passengers of the
transports were also harassed by
cops frisking them on the both
sides of Chittagong Shah Amanat
Bridge area,” alleged Md Musa.
In his speech, transport workers’
leader said police were intentionally
implicating the name of
transport leaders in different cases
while the members of law enforcing
agency’s rampant extortion and
bribery have made their lives miserable.
The transport leader also demanded
immediate registration of
around 4,000 CNG-run new auto
rickshaws which were termed illegal
and evicted from the roads earlier.
“We also demand the cancellation
of the daily target income systems
by the transport owners and
BRTC should prioritise the practical
experience of drivers while
issuing a driving license instead of
the written test,” said Md Musa.
The other demands are-setting
up terminals for bus, trucks and
JKKNIU
admission
test recycles
old questions
• Mahadi Al Hasnat
DT
Students and aspirants were surprised
to find that the first year
admission test at Jatiya Kabi Kazi
Nazrul Islam University (JKKNIU)
for ‘A’ unit of 2016-17 academic session
held Thursday allegedly used
the same questions as the previous
year’s paper.
According to sources, 49 out
of the 50 English multiple choice
questions were exactly the same as
in the 2015-16 question paper.
Md Rashedul Islam, an applicant
from Chuadanga district told
the Dhaka Tribune: “Most of the
English Multiple Choice Questions
(MCQs) were exactly the same as
previous year’s questions.”
He claimed that the recycles
was happened due to the irresponsibility
of university authorities
and the admission test conducting
committee.
When contacted, Chairman of
the Department of English of the
university Dr Bijoy Bushon Das
said: “I was unaware of the matter,
as I am on leave due to physical
illness.”
Dismissing the complaint as
‘irrelevant” and “not abnormal”,
Chief Coordinator of ‘A’ unit examination
Dr Mahbub Hossain said:
“There is nothing to do if previous
year’s questions have appeared
in this year. The results of the test
have already been published and
notified.”
Vice Chancellor of Jatiya Kabi
Kazi Nazrul Islam Univeristy Dr
Mohit Ul Alam was unavailable
for comment, despite several
attempts to contact him via mobile
phone. •
prime movers, fixing parking spots
for auto-rickshaws, providing appointment
letters to all transport
workers and ensuring the money
of welfare trust to the workers,
cutting the higher ferry tolls, setting
Tk600 as the daily target and
cancelling the target system of
bus and human haulers in the city
while submitting the charge sheet
of transport leader Nurul Islam abduction
case immediately.
Hazi Abdus Sabur, chairman
of movement committee of Bangladesh
Sarak Paribahan Sramik
Federation, Hazi Ruhul Amin,
president of Bangladesh Sarak
Paribahan Sramik Federation’s
Chittagong Divisional Committee,
transport leader Rabiul Mowla, Ali
Ahmed and Humayun were present
at the press conference. •