A Dhaka court has sentenced 10 out of 124 people to different terms in the case related to the leak of the question papers of admission to educational institutions and public jobs.
Seven of them have been sentenced to four years and three to two years. However, the court acquitted 114 people as the charges against them were not proved.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Hasibul Haque gave the verdict on Sunday.
As the convicts are absconding, the court has issued arrest warrants against them along with sentencing warrants.
On October 20, 2017, CID raided two residential halls of Dhaka University and arrested two students named Mamun and Rana.
CID filed a case in this regard at the capital’s Shahbag police station under the Communication Technology Act 2006 and Public Examination Act 1980.
The investigating officer CID Senior ASP Suman Kumar Das filed the chargesheet in the court in 2019. A total of 125 people including 87 students of Dhaka University were accused in the charge sheet.
Later, the Cyber Tribunal of Dhaka acquitted all the accused from the case under the Information and Communication Technology Act. The trial of 124 people started in Dhaka's Metropolitan Magistrate's Court under the Public Examination Act.
