Guwahati, March 14 -- The Sonitpur Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Tezpur has remanded University of Science and Technology Meghalaya (USTM) Chancellor Mahbubul Hoque to judicial custody following his arrest by district police on Thursday.

The court has directed the police to produce Hoque before it again on March 18.

Allegations of promising students to use unfair means in exams led to Hoque's arrest.

Haque's lawyer had also filed a bail petition in the court, but the court did not take it up during the day's proceedings.

The case has drawn significant attention, especially after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma criticized Hoque, calling him a "big fraud" and claiming that his entire past was false.

The high court also ...