Rajshahi University has finally released the master's results of Rafiqul Islam, a former student leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, after a 12-year delay. His results were withheld in 2013 over allegations of thesis forgery linked to his political affiliation. Rafiqul, a student of the Applied Mathematics department from the 2007–08 session, achieved a perfect CGPA of 4.00 and secured first place in his department. The university announced the results as provisional, pending syndicate approval. Rafiqul, now pursuing a PhD at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, expressed relief and gratitude, describing the long delay as a period of personal trauma and social hardship. He claimed that political bias and internal faculty disputes had derailed his academic progress. Student leaders from Shibir hailed the result as a symbolic victory against what they termed academic harassment of politically affiliated students.