Kolkata Police Forms 5-Member SIT to Probe Alleged Gang-Rape of Law Student

Kolkata Police has constituted a five member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged gang-rape of a law college student, according to PTI quoting a senior officer.

Arrests have been made in the purported raping of a 24 year old law student by a group of men in a government law college in South Kolkata in Kasba area.

A security guard of the college was the latest person to be arrested on Saturday.

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On Thursday, two students Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukherjee (20) and a member of the staff of the college Monojit Mishra (31) were arrested by the authorities, a day after the act was alleged to have happened on the campus.

Police have reported that the alleged crime took place sometime between 7.30 pm and 10.50 pm on Wednesday and at the time of the crime, the woman had gone to the college to fill in some forms to prepare an upcoming examination.

The medical test has supported her claim of gang-rape as officials reported that the injuries found were compatible to what would be caused by sexual assault.

The report shows that doctors discovered the evidence of a forceful penetration, bite marks and nail scratches on her body.

The survivor, in her complaint, claimed that she kept on asking the main accused to release her and when she failed to hear the pleas, she started asking him to release her.

“I touched his feet, but he did not let me go, but he did not listen,” she said in her statement.

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“He asked the other two to take me inside the guard’s room and make the guard sit outside. They did so,” she added in her complaint.

This case has triggered an enormous uproar in West Bengal, as the Trinamool Congress which rules West Bengal had been involved in the political blood bath against the Bharatiya Janata Party.

TMC led by Mamata Banerjee has however said that justice would prevail in the case.

On Saturday, union minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta majumdar was detained as he protested against the gang-rape of a student in a law college in Kolkata.

Commenting on X, Majumdar said he and his party leaders were detained as ordered by chief minister Mamata Banerjee by Kolkata police.

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