Of the fake students, 75 were from international relations (IR) department, three from the

Institute of Social Welfare and Research and one each from management department, chemistry department and political science department, syndicate sources said.

The syndicate decided to cancel their admission after serving show-cause notices on 84 students following findings of a probe committee. Among them, 28 responded to the show-cause notice, but they could not give proof of the legality of their admission.

The syndicate yesterday also directed the authorities to send show-cause notices to nine more fresh students of IR department identified as fake, asking proof of legality of their admission, sources said.

Their fate will be decided in the next syndicate meet.

The fact-finding committee working to detect fake students at the university yesterday reported to the syndicate about two students, who allegedly submitted fake freedom fighter certificates, to get enrolled under the quota.

One of them is from library science department and another from business studies faculty. These certificates have been sent to the Liberation War Ministry for clarification.

The syndicate yesterday also approved two students as legal after being confirmed about their admission.

On June 5, the authorities cancelled admission of 77 fake students, 44 of them were from public administration department. Of the rest, nine were from IR department, 22 from economics department and two from political science department and two from the social welfare and research institute.

The fact-finding committee was formed on October 10 last year in the wake of allegations of inconsistencies in admission papers of 11 students of public administration department of 2004-2005 academic session.

A drive was launched in March this year to identify fake students in the faculties of arts and social sciences following the probe committee's interim report on frauds in admission.