Five Biman officials, employees remanded over question paper leak

A court in Dhaka on Saturday placed five officials and employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a six-day remand for their alleged involvement in disclosing an enrollment question paper prior to the exam, BSS reported.

They are Awlad Hossain, 21, Md Jahangir Alam, 36, Enamul Haque, 28, Md Harun-ur Rashid, 40 and Mahfuzul Alam, 31.

As they were produced before the court this morning, the police pleaded for granting a 10-day remand for the sake of proper investigation into the scam.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shanta Akhter passed the order after hearing both sides.

Earlier on Friday, the recruitment examinations for 100 posts of the national carrier agency were suspended due to the allegations of question paper leak. 

Police in subsequent action, arrested the Biman officials and employees for their alleged involvement in question paper leak on Friday night.