NEW DELHI: Kolkata Police on Thursday said that the prime accused Manojit Mishra in the rape of an law student inside college premises was former president of the college’s Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad unit and the organisational secretary of the south Kolkata wing of the TMC’s student body.
Photographs of the key accused available in the public domain also showed him in close proximity to several leaders of the state’s ruling dispensation.
According to college authorities, the main accused was also engaged as a temporary non-teaching staff at the institution for a renewable contractual period of 45 days. He was also a practising criminal lawyer at the Alipore Police and Sessions Court.
Meanwhile, the vice principal of the college Dr Nayna Chatterji claimed that Mishra was appointed on a renewable contract on the basis of a resolution passed by the governing body (GB) of the institute.
“I got the information from the security guard that the police have sealed two rooms of our college. I am trying to find out what has happened. This person was appointed by the GB on a purely temporary basis," she said.
'Accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it'
According to Kolkata police, the alleged crime took place inside a guard's room on the ground floor of the college, next to the students' union office on June 25.
"Initial investigations revealed that the victim had reached the college in the afternoon to fill up certain academic forms after she was called by some people," officials told news agency PTI.
"According to the complaint she filed at the Kasba police station on Thursday, she was asked by the miscreants to stay back. In the evening she was allegedly taken to the room on the ground floor of the college and raped by the accused till around 10 pm. We have sealed the room, and our forensic experts will soon be there to collect evidence," the officer added.
The victim also alleged that in her complaint that she was filmed while being gang-raped, PTI reported, citing sources.
"She has alleged that the three accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it on the internet if she talked to anybody about the incident," the source told PTI.
The mobile phone devices of the three accused have been seized and sent for forensic tests, the officer added.
"We are trying to find out whether the video footage was forwarded to other numbers or not,” he said while adding that the mandatory medical tests on the victim were being conducted.
Photographs of the key accused available in the public domain also showed him in close proximity to several leaders of the state’s ruling dispensation.
According to college authorities, the main accused was also engaged as a temporary non-teaching staff at the institution for a renewable contractual period of 45 days. He was also a practising criminal lawyer at the Alipore Police and Sessions Court.
Meanwhile, the vice principal of the college Dr Nayna Chatterji claimed that Mishra was appointed on a renewable contract on the basis of a resolution passed by the governing body (GB) of the institute.
“I got the information from the security guard that the police have sealed two rooms of our college. I am trying to find out what has happened. This person was appointed by the GB on a purely temporary basis," she said.
'Accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it'
According to Kolkata police, the alleged crime took place inside a guard's room on the ground floor of the college, next to the students' union office on June 25.
"Initial investigations revealed that the victim had reached the college in the afternoon to fill up certain academic forms after she was called by some people," officials told news agency PTI.
"According to the complaint she filed at the Kasba police station on Thursday, she was asked by the miscreants to stay back. In the evening she was allegedly taken to the room on the ground floor of the college and raped by the accused till around 10 pm. We have sealed the room, and our forensic experts will soon be there to collect evidence," the officer added.
The victim also alleged that in her complaint that she was filmed while being gang-raped, PTI reported, citing sources.
"She has alleged that the three accused had kept the mobile footage of the assault and threatened to release it on the internet if she talked to anybody about the incident," the source told PTI.
The mobile phone devices of the three accused have been seized and sent for forensic tests, the officer added.
"We are trying to find out whether the video footage was forwarded to other numbers or not,” he said while adding that the mandatory medical tests on the victim were being conducted.
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