Daijiworld Media Network – Kolkata

Kolkata, Aug 24: Police on Saturday filed a charge sheet against four accused in the alleged gang rape of a first-year law student at South Calcutta Law College, nearly two months after the incident.

The charge sheet, submitted to the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Alipore, names prime accused and former student leader Monojit Mishra along with Zaib Ahmed, Pramit Mukherjee and security guard Pinaki Banerjee.

“The charges, based on technical, scientific and circumstantial evidence, include gang rape, wrongful confinement, kidnapping with intent to harm, destruction of evidence and misleading the investigation,” a senior officer said. All four accused are in judicial custody.

The victim was allegedly gang-raped on June 25 inside the college campus. Mishra, an alumnus and temporary staffer, along with Ahmed and Mukherjee, then students of the institute, were arrested on June 26. Banerjee was held the next day for abetting the crime by allowing his room to be used and failing to help the victim.

Following the arrests, Mishra was dismissed from service, while Ahmed and Mukherjee were expelled. Mishra, once president of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) unit on campus, is said to have had no links with the student body in recent years, the TMCP clarified.