The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

More than 700 employees were illegally appointed in the national university through a fake advertisement in 2004.

The university authority paid nothing for the advertisement, as no bill was found in the file of the university.

This was disclosed through a letter sent to the Officer in Charge (OC) of Joydebpur Police Station by Md Ruhul Amin, Deputy Resister (Admin) of the university.

In the letter he said that the advertisement, which was preserved in the archive of the university is completely fake.

Hafizur Rahman, lecturer of the university filed a case against seven officials, including Prof Wakil Ahmed, former Vice Chancellor, Prof Syed Abul Kalam Azad, and former Treasurer of the university for “Fraud Practicing” and submitting fake documents before the court in connection with the appointments.

Ruhul Amin informed that the name of the newspaper of Dainik Ajkal was not found in the advertising chart approved by the syndicate.

Golam Tahabur, the then Managing Editor of the daily Independent denied publication of that recruitment advertisement on that day in the daily Independent.

Source said the ill motivated group conspired for recruiting over 700 employees against 24 posts. These posts includes deputy resister, network administrator, senior programmer, maintenance engineer, programmer, senior section officer, law officer and audit officer.

The corrupt officials submitted fake documents before the court. They pocketed about Tk 20 crore through this illegal mass recruitment, source said.

Shamser uz Zaman and Advocate Khayer uz Zaman of the Supreme Court carried out the Fraud Practice before the court under the direction of Prof Wakil Ahmed, the source added.

It may be mentioned that Hafizur Rahman was harassed and threatened when he tried to file a case against these irregularities with Dhanmondi Police Station on March 19. Later, he filed the case with Joydebpur Police Station on April16.