Five Biman officials remanded for six days over question paper leak

Five employees and officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were placed on a 6-day remand by a court here today for their alleged involvement in disclosing an enrollment question paper prior to the exam.

The remanded employees of the national airlines agency 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 the hearing both the sides.

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

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