Dhaka: The law enforcing agencies will increase surveillance on the financial transactions of organizations like bKash to catch the question scandal. The Education Ministry has issued a directive to take legal action against someone involved in the transaction.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid gave this directive to police from an emergency meeting in the education ministry on Sunday after allegations of leakage of two issues in the ongoing SSC exam on Facebook.
After the emergency meeting of National Monitoring Committee and law and order committee formed to mark the examination in the afternoon, Education Minister briefed the reporters about various issues.
Although the Education Minister does not say anything about financial institutions like bKash, there is a mention of surveillance of the meeting.
'Police will take lawful action on the development and investigation of transactions that have been traded at least five thousand taka from two days before the start of the SSC examination in all the financial institutions and if any examinee has seen it.'
An Education Ministry official told banglanews, "The Education Minister has ordered to monitor the issue of financial transactions on mobile to catch the question leaky."
Dhaka Metropolitan Police's joint commissioner Sheikh Nazmul Alam and a joint commissioner of detective police said they started the surveillance.
The official of the Education Ministry said that the Secretary, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, gave the letter to the Secretary of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology for blocking Internet and Facebook during the examination. But the ministry has notified that Facebook can not be closed.
The official said that the BTRC officials present at the meeting said that they are monitoring various links of Facebook. The Education Minister has ordered the highest application of the law.
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