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A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Mymensingh for selling fake medical college admission test questions. The arrestee is Nazmul Ehsan Nayeem, a first-year mathematics student at Ananda Mohan College. He is the son of Zahurul Islam from Bhurarbari village in Sarishabari, Jamalpur, said Additional Superintendent of Mymensingh Police Mohaimenul Islam at a press conference at the district police headquarters on Thursday. Youth arrested over raping street child in Dhaka Detective Branch (DB) of Mymensingh Police arrested Nazmul from a student dormitory on College Road Thursday afternoon. “We were closely monitoring social media platforms after reports emerged of leaked medical college entrance exam questions. A Facebook account under the name ‘Gazi Kamal Hossain’ posted a claim offering the 2024-2025 medical college entrance exam questions for Tk 12,000, with Tk 6,000 required as an advance payment. A fake question paper was also shared in the post. Suspecting this to be a scam, we initiated an investigation,” said the addl SP. Nayeem had reportedly bought an old mobile phone from Alka Nodi Bangla Saima Telecom, used it to create a WhatsApp account, and contacted prospective medical students, offering fake questions for a fee. Over the past two days, he is believed to have collected more than Tk 1 lakh from various individuals. 5 muggers arrested from Dhaka's Kadamtali: DMP During primary interrogation, Nayeem confessed to orchestrating the scam after failing his own medical entrance exam. He admitted to defrauding others by providing them with fake questions and receiving payments via WhatsApp and the mobile banking service, bKash. Legal proceedings are currently underway, and a case against Nayeem is expected to be filed soon, added the police official.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Wednesday said the test for admission to medical colleges will be held on April 2 next in compliance with health guidelines.  "Examinees will sit at a distance of 3 feet.  Everyone has to wear a mask, and there’ll be sanitizers," he said while talking to reporters after a meeting on medical college admission test at his ministry's conference room. Also read: 5 held for fraudulence with fake MBBS test question paper The minister said around 1.22 lakh examinees will sit for this year's examination which will be held at 55 centres. The number of centres will be increased, if needed, he added. Zahid Maleque said," Coaching centres will remain closed before, during and after the examination, and no photocopy machine will be allowed in the vicinity of any exam centre. "