West Bengal: College safety guard arrested in Kolkata legislation faculty gang-rape case

Two college students — Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukherjee (20) — and a staffer of the government-run legislation faculty, Monojit Mishra (31), had been arrested on Thursday.

“We have arrested a safety guard of the faculty. This is the fourth arrest in reference to the case. The probe is ongoing,” a senior officer mentioned.

Police mentioned the alleged incident happened between 7.30 pm and 10.50 pm on Wednesday, when the lady had gone to the faculty to fill out some varieties for an upcoming examination. The girl — who was allegedly the TMCP’s ladies’s wing secretary within the faculty — was requested by the accused to remain again for some discussions, she mentioned in her grievance, which HT has seen.

In the night, Mishra allegedly proposed marriage, which she declined, stating that she had a boyfriend. The accused then allegedly tried to pressure himself on her. The sufferer had a panic assault and requested to be taken to a hospital. Mishra, nevertheless, allegedly refused to let her go. “He took me close to the washroom and tried to pressure himself on me… I fought again,” she mentioned within the grievance.

Mishra’s aides, Ahmed and Mukherjee, allegedly locked the principle gate of the faculty and forcibly took the sufferer to the guard’s room. The safety guard was allegedly requested to depart. In the guard’s room, Mishra allegedly tried to rape her.

“Mishra instructed Ahmed and Mukherjee to take me to the guard’s room and make the guard sit exterior. They did so,” she wrote within the grievance.

Police have seized CCTV footage that confirmed the safety guard loitering exterior. He didn’t rush to assist the sufferer or try to tell the faculty authorities or elevate an alarm.

The girl additionally sustained a head damage. She alleged that Mishra tried to hit her with a hockey stick. She was additionally allegedly proven a video clip that had been captured on a cell phone by one of many accused whereas she was being stripped, the grievance mentioned. She was threatened that the video can be circulated on social media.

A day later, the lady knowledgeable her household following which she filed a police grievance on the Kasba police station. A medical examination of the lady was additionally carried out at a state-run medical faculty.

In the grievance, she mentioned that Mishra works as a prison lawyer within the Alipore court docket in Kolkata. He can be employed as a contractual employees member on the faculty.

“Mishra was recruited purely on a contractual foundation round 45 days in the past, on the instructions of the governing physique of the faculty. TMC legislator Ashok Kumar Deb is the president of the governing physique,” Nayna Chatterji, vice-principal of the faculty, informed media individuals.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that the principle accused within the crime — Mishra, a former pupil of the faculty who’s presently a non-teaching staffer — was a key office-bearer of the coed wing of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). However, the ruling social gathering mentioned he by no means held any vital place.

Mishra’s social media account said that he was a former chief of the TMC’s youth wing in the identical faculty.

The three accused who had been arrested on Thursday had been produced earlier than the extra chief judicial Justice of the Peace’s court docket in Alipore on Friday, which despatched them to police custody until July 1.

Forensic officers visited the location of the incident on Friday and sealed the world, police officers conscious of the matter mentioned, including that in addition they knowledgeable the court docket that the accused’s cell phones have been seized.

The gang-rape comes virtually a 12 months after the August 9 rape and homicide of a 31-year-old junior physician on the RG Kar Hospital ignited sweeping statewide protests and a residents’ motion asking for justice.