Four Accused Named in Kolkata College Campus Gang-Rape

24 August-Kolkata, India: On Saturday, the Kolkata Police filed a chargesheet against four individuals involved in the gang rape of a law student on a reputed college campus in the city.

The Alipore Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate provided guidance to file the chargesheet. Authorities determined Monojit Mishra, a former student and current college staff, to be the primary offender in the rape case. In addition, they charged three additional people.

An official highlighted on the issue and said “The charges, based on technical, scientific and circumstantial evidence, ranged from gang rape, forcible wrongful confinement, kidnapping with the intention to cause harm, hiding evidence, misleading the probe and others.”

About the Rape Case

On June 25, intruders reportedly raped a 24-year-old female law student inside the college premises located in the Kasba area of South Kolkata. The girl later filed a complaint, and the Kolkata police filed the case. Three main culprits, including the former student and employee of the college, Monojit Mishra, and two current college students, Zaib Ahmed and Promit Mukherjee.

Later, the security guard of the college Pinaki Banerjee was also arrested who was the fourth person in the raped case.

The surviving girl reported that the crime was inside the security guard Banerjee’s room, where both intruders, Ahmed and Mukherjee, filmed the sickening act on their mobile phones.

Four accused are under judicial custody

In addition to the raped case, the authorities have placed all four accused and culprits under Article 70(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for gang rape, and they have additionally charged the accused under Section 140(3) for kidnapping, Section 140(4) for subjecting the kidnapped victim to slavery, unnatural sexual acts, or grave harm, and Section 118 for wilfully causing harm with hazardous weapons.

Mishra served as the college’s unit president and a previous member of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP). However, the TMCP later stated that for the last two years, they have not associated Mishra with the group.