KOLKATA :

  

THE police suspect that the law college student in Kolkata was gangraped since she turned down the marriage proposal of the main accused making him angry, an officer said on Saturday. Police were also trying to find out whether the entire crime was pre-planned or not, he said. “Going by the sequence of events, it appears that the victim had to face torture because of vengeance of the prime accused after she rejected his marriage proposal. This has been corroborated by the circumstantial evidence,” the officer said. “But whether it was a pre-planned crime or it happened suddenly needs to be proved,” the officer told PTI.

 

The woman told the three accused that she had a boyfriend and was “happy with him” and would not “cheat him”. The trio then threatened to kill her boyfriend and lodge false cases against her parents if she continued to resist the prime accused, she has alleged. “Every aspect is being probed. We are also going through call details of the three accused and that of the victim,” he said. The medical examination corroborated the law college student’s allegation that she was gangraped. The first-year student of South Calcutta Law College complained to the police that she was gangraped inside the institution by an alumnus and two senior students of the institution on the evening of June 25. All three accused were arrested on Thursday.

 

The medical examination of the woman was also conducted on the same day. There are external injuries near her private parts and inner thighs, besides marks of assaults on and around her neck. Meanwhile, the Kolkata Police formed a five-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe into the alleged gangrape of a studentbyher seniorsinsidealawcollege in the city, an officer said. The five-member SIT would be led by an Assistant Commissioner rank officer, he said.

 

COLLEGE SECURITY GUARD ARRESTED: THE police on Saturday arresteda securityguardof theKolkata law college whereafirst-year student was raped by three men including an alumnus earlier this week, an officer said. With this, the total number of arrests reached four in the crime that took place inside the guard’s room on the college premises. The guard, who was detained by the police forquestioning,wasarrestedlater, the officer said. “Thesecurityguardwasarrested this morning afterwefound thathisreplies were incoherent. His presence at the collegehas beencapturedin theCCTV installed in the college,” he said.

 

The guard failed tocarryouthisduty, the officer said adding that the police were trying to find out whether he was alone on duty at that time or not. The incident occurred at the South Calcutta Law College on the evening of June 25. BJP’S PROTEST RALLY STOPPED, PARTY’SWB CHIEF DETAINED:

 

THE police on Saturday stopped a BJP rally led by its West Bengal unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and detained him along with several other party leaders when they tried to take out the protest march toalawcollegein thecity,where a student was allegedly gangraped, a senior officer said.