At least 38 persons, including 25 applicants, have been arrested for using means of plagiarism at the admission test of Dhaka University's arts and social science faculty for the 2014-14 academic year.
The Rapid Action Battalion, along with the DU authorities, detained them from several places across the capital.
Among them, 17 applicants were detained during the admission test.
Talking to journalists, DU Proctor Professor Dr Amzad Ali said they were caught red-handed while cheating during the admission test.
“All of them have been sent to the respective police stations,” he said, adding that separate cases would be filed against each of them, and the female offenders would be released after that.
Meanwhile, a team of RAB 7 arrested 21 people, including eight applicants, a college teacher, and a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader, during a special drive on late Thursday night.
The leader, Mofajjal Hossain Lenin, is the secretary of international affairs at Chhatra League's DU unit, and a senior officer at Sonali Bank's Sadharghat branch.
In a press release issued on Friday evening, the RAB officials said the ring had prepared to provide answers to the admission test through mobile phone.
The gang were supposed to help seven applicants, they said.
The test in question was held from 10am to 11am in 97 centres across the capital, including 44 centres outside the DU campus. A total of 105,516 candidates took the test contending for 1,416 seats.
