Law college gang rape: Detective department to take over case, say Kolkata Police

NEW DELHI: The Detective department will take over the probe into the gangrape of a law student inside a south Kolkata college campus, Kolkata Police said, according to news agency ANI on Wednesday.

The survivor, an active participant in campus politics and a Trinamool supporter, said she was lured to the union room on June 27 evening with the promise of a key post, then forcibly taken to the campus security guards’ room, where she was gangraped, assaulted with a hockey stick, threatened and filmed. She was allowed to leave only after she complained of a panic attack.

Three accused — Manojit Mishra, a former student and now ad-hoc non-teaching staffer, and two of his aides, first-year student Pramit Mukherjee and second-year student Zaib Ahmed, and college security have been arrested. A medical examination of the survivor corroborated her complaint, police said.

Mishra had earlier been expelled from the college’s Trinamool Chhatra Parishad unit in 2021. He graduated in 2022 but returned to the college in a staff role.
The assault occurred between 7.30pm and 10.50pm, after most students had left.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)