Dhaka, Oct 23 (V7N) – Law enforcement officers detained 53 students on Wednesday afternoon after they entered the secretariat, demanding a re-evaluation of their HSC and equivalent exam results. The students were taken into custody at around 3:45 PM and transported in two police prison vans.

Earlier in the day, over 500 students, dissatisfied with their results, gathered at the secretariat to protest what they called “errors” in their exam outcomes. The protesters, who had failed their exams, chanted slogans such as "Amar sonar banglay, boishommer thai nai" ("There is no place for discrimination in my Golden Bengal") and "We want justice."

Despite initial efforts by army and police personnel to disperse the group peacefully, the students persisted in their demonstration. Eventually, when law enforcement moved to intervene, the students scattered.

This protest followed a previous one on October 20, when students staged a sit-in at the Dhaka Education Board, demanding the cancellation and reissuance of exam results. That day, they confined board officials for eight hours.

The discontent stems from the rescheduling of exams due to violence during the quota reform movement. Exams originally slated for July and August were postponed and later replaced by subject mapping. Students have since demanded the complete cancellation of the remaining exams, a request that the authorities addressed by implementing subject mapping instead of automatic passing.

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