A general diary (GD) was lodged at the Islamic University police station over the leak of an audio clip purportedly containing a conversation between Islamic University vice-chancellor and a jobseeker.
IU acting registrar HM Ali Hasan on Friday filed the general diary with the police station after three audio clips containing a conversation between the VC and the jobseeker at the mass communication and journalism department of the university were leaked on social media Thursday night.
Annur Jayed Bipob, officer-in-charge of Islamic University police station, told UNB that they received a GD from the university administration in the evening.
Police were looking into the matter, the OC added.
The audio clips went viral five days before the recruitment board of the mass communication and journalism department is scheduled to sit on February 22.
The audio clips between VC Prof Shaikh Abdus Salam and Oliur Rahman, the jobseeker, were leaked from a Facebook account around 9:30pm on Thursday, where the VC purportedly asks Oliur to collect two other candidates to fulfil the requirement for the department’s recruitment board.
Campus sources said the last recruitment board of the journalism department was held on October 25, 2022, where Oliur Rahman was a candidate but not recruited as the board could not meet its requirement that at least three candidates apply for the post and sit for the recruitment test.
The university administration later published another circular in different newspapers seeking candidates for assistant professors of the department where Oliur also applied.
According to the audio clips, the VC told Oliur that he, Oliur, failed to write his answer to the question of the recruitment test held on October 25, 2022. He also told him that he was not good at his IQ.
The VC advised him over the phone regarding the recruitment test. He assured Oliur that he did not accept the recruitment policy of the University Grants Commission regarding the requirement process of recruiting teachers at the journalism department.
Many senior progressive alliance teachers said he had no right to share any recruitment test information with anyone as the vice-chancellor of the university.
The government and ministry concerned should look into the matter. If there was any involvement of the vice-chancellor with the audio clip he should be brought under the law, they added.
When contacted, IU VC Abdus Salam acknowledged that he talked to Oliur who was a part-time teacher in the mass communication department. He, however, denied the allegation brought against him.
