Twenty-two individuals, who were posing as proxy candidates during the oral examination for office assistant positions at Gaibandha deputy commissioner鈥檚 office, were held and later handed over to police.
The detained, of various areas across Gaibandha, were marked on Saturday when discrepancies were noted between the handwritings on the written exam papers and of those who appeared for the oral test.
Members of the recruitment board noticed irregularities during the oral examination, which began at 2:00pm on Saturday. Out of the 226 candidates who qualified for this phase, 36 were absent.
Md Shariful Islam, deputy director of Gaibandha鈥檚 local government division and a member of the recruitment board, said that when confronted, the detained persons admitted that they were appearing as proxies for the actual candidates.
Officials suspected the involvement of an organised syndicate, facilitating that type of examination fraud.
The recruitment process, initiated on May 25 by former deputy commissioner Kazi Nahid Rasul, aims to fill 55 office assistant vacancies in the revenue section of his office.
The positions are open to candidates with SSC and HSC qualifications, drawing 3,722 applicants for the written exam held on Friday across various district educational institutions, with 226 advancing to the oral round.
