IIM-Calcutta rape accused purchased sleeping capsules to spike chilly drinks provided to girl: Police

The accused within the alleged rape case on the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta campus has admitted to buying sleeping capsules from a close-by pharmacy, which he had combined with chilly drinks and consuming water provided to the girl earlier than committing the crime, a senior police officer mentioned on Monday (July 14, 2025).

Police, nevertheless, have discovered a number of discrepancies within the statements of the accused pupil of the IIM-Calcutta, he mentioned.

“The accused had admitted to having bought sleeping pills and spiked the cold drinks and drinking water which he had offered the woman when she was there. But he could not clarify what the real intention was behind doing all these to a woman who went to him for counselling. He is not answering this question,” the officer mentioned.

Circumstantial proof led to the invention that the survivor, after consuming the chilly drink, went to a room within the boys hostel, the place the alleged crime passed off, he mentioned.

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“The accused after committing the crime, rang up one of his friends and narrated the entire crime. During the conversation, he was loitering in the veranda in front of the room where the crime took place,” the officer mentioned.

Talking concerning the rape survivor, the officer mentioned, there was confusion about whether or not she was really a psychologist or not.

“She could not place any documents supporting her qualifications as a psychologist. She has not disclosed which institution she attended. We are yet to get information about her chamber and any prescription having her name and other details,” he mentioned.

Talking concerning the “contradictory” assertion of the daddy of the sufferer, police mentioned they have been additionally looking for out whether or not the household was “under pressure” to vary the assertion. They have been additionally investigating whether or not there was any monetary transaction behind this transformation of assertion of the sufferer’s household, he mentioned.

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Police have constituted a nine-member particular investigation workforce (SIT) to probe the alleged rape of a girl by a pupil on the IIM-Calcutta hostel. The workforce is led by an assistant commissioner from the South West Division, they mentioned.

The alleged incident passed off in a boys’ hostel of IIM-Calcutta, and the accused pupil was arrested the subsequent day based mostly on an FIR lodged by the girl at Haridevpur Police Station. A Kolkata court docket has remanded the coed to police custody until July 19.