A Dhaka Court on Tuesday fixed July 21 for holding a hearing on the application to remand six people in a case lodged over the allegations of question papers leaking in various government recruitment tests including Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC).
Tuesday was fixed as the date for a remand hearing in the presence of six accused.
However, the prison authorities did not present the accused from the prison to the court.
For this reason, the court has postponed the date of hearing on the remand issue and fixed it on July 21.
Gholam Mawla, the lawyer for the accused, confirmed this.
Earlier on July 11, for the sake of proper investigation, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury fixed the date Tuesday as the Investigating Officer (IO) of the case CID Additional Special Superintendent of Police Jewel Chakma applied for 10-day remand for each of the accused.
The other five accused are-- Deputy Directors of Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) Jahangir Alam, 58, and Abu Zafar, 57, Assistant Director SM Alamgir Kabir, 49, Defense and Finance Department (BOF) auditor Priyanath Roy, 51, Mirpur garment factory businessmen Noman Siddiqui, 44, and Jahedul Islam, 27.
Earlier on July 9, the police produced 17 accused arrested in the court.
At that time, six persons including PSC driver Abed Ali agreed to give a statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Following an application from the investigation officer of the case, the Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka recorded their statement.
On July 8, Sub-Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Nippon Chandra Das filed a case with Paltan Police Station in the capital.
Name of 31 people was mentioned in the case. Besides, there are 50 to 60 unidentified accused.
According to the case, the accused, as a syndicate, leaked the question papers of various grades of BCS and PSC in exchange of money in the past years.
The accused have acquired illegal wealth beyond their known income sources by selling questions to some government job aspirants.