- Most proxy candidates were caught at the Judicial Service Commission’s exams.
- After cases were filed, summary trials handed down sentences of 15 days to one year.
- Experts urge exemplary punishment, including a ban from public exams for those involved.
One person applies for the job, and another sits the recruitment exam. The number of such proxy candidates in government recruitment is growing. Over the past nine months, more than 300 people have been caught posing as candidates during recruitment exams for various ministries in the capital. They were sentenced on the spot and sent to jail. Experts have voiced concern at this kind of fraud in job exams.
“Proxy cases in recruitment exams are rising because of moral decay. This is very worrying. A summary trial alone is not enough. Regular cases should be filed for fraud against both the applicant and the person who sits the exam, and both should be banned from public exams for life,” said ABM Altaf Hossain, a senior Supreme Court lawyer. The exam system, including biometric checks, also needs to be improved so that no one can sit an exam in another person’s place, he said. He also recommended a new policy for public exams.
In the first nine months of this year, 319 people were detained for fraudulently taking part in recruitment exams for various ministries, enquiries found. After 115 cases were filed against them, a judge sent them to jail on summary sentences. The largest number were detained while trying to sit the Judicial Service Commission’s exam for recruiting judges, where 246 people were detained and 105 cases filed. At the exam for recruiting prison guards, 30 people were detained and three cases filed.
In addition, two people were detained at railway recruitment exams, two at the Government Employees Hospital’s recruitment exam, three at the establishment ministry’s recruitment exam, eight at the land ministry’s and 28 at the food ministry’s. A Special Metropolitan Magistrate of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) gave them summary sentences of between 15 days and one year and sent them to jail.
Barrister Mashiur Rahman Sabuj, a guest faculty member in the law departments of Dhaka University and several other universities, said cases of one person sitting an exam for another are increasing. Both the applicant and the proxy should be punished, and they should be barred from any public exam for at least five years, he said.
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