A Dhaka court yesterday criticised lawyers for moving a bail petition for an accused held over his alleged involvement in leaking Dhaka University D-unit admission test questions. 

Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court of Dhaka lambasted Advocate Anisur Rahman and two others who moved a bail petition for Mohammad Maruf Hossain, 24.

The judge told the lawyers that they should not stand with the question leaksters as such people damage the talent of the students.

The judge said that the accused have confessed to his crime and after getting bail he will again do the same act.

On December 9 last year, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) detained Boni Israel, 23, and Mohammad Maruf, 24, from Rajshahi.

They were remanded for quizzing about the question leak and they confessed to their crime under section 164 in December last year. 

On October 20 last year, a full set of the question paper for the test for the 2017-18 academic session was leaked, about seven hours before the exam. The university authorities claimed that they did not have any information or evidence on the question leak, but the English section in the exam question and the leaked paper were found to be identical.