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TMC Youth Wing Leader Among Three Arrested In Kolkata Law Student Gangrape Case
One of the accused in Kolkata law college student gangrape case (Pic Via X)
A 24-year-old law student was allegedly gang-raped inside South Calcutta Law College earlier this week, India Today reported.
Three men, including a Trinamool Congress student wing leader, have been arrested in connection with the case.
The victim was reportedly locked inside the security guard room and assaulted by the accused, who also filmed the act and threatened to leak the videos.
According to the complaint, the woman was gang-raped on Wednesday - between 7.30 pm and 10.50 pm - inside the campus of the South Calcutta Law College.
An investigation based on the woman's complaint led to the subsequent arrests of the three men, including two students, and a staffer.
According to the FIR based on the woman's complaint, the main accused are Monojit Mishra, 31, a former student and current general secretary of the South Kolkata district of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP); Zaib Ahmed, 19, a first-year student and 20-year-old Pramit Mukherjee, another student.
All three were arrested between evening and late night on Thursday (26 June).
The woman alleged that Mishra proposed her for marriage and became aggressive when she rejected him, citing her relationship with someone else.
She told police that he locked her in a room, threatened to kill her and her boyfriend, and get her parents arrested.
She also claimed the accused demanded she prove her loyalty to the Trinamool student wing.
When she tried to resist and escape, she suffered injuries as the accused attempted to hit her with a hockey stick.
The incident has sparked political outrage, with the BJP criticizing the TMC government over rising crimes against women.
The National Commission for Women has sought a detailed report within three days.
Police have seized the phones of accused and secured the crime scene for forensic analysis.
The three accused were produced before a court on Thursday, and were remanded to five days of police custody.
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress assured of justice in a statement on X, in which the ruling party condemned the incident and stressed that the "full weight of the law will be brought to bear, ensuring the most severe measures are imposed on those found guilty".
Meanwhile, the BJP hit back by sharing a series of pictures of the main accused, Monojit Mishra, with multiple Trinamool leaders.
