The West Bengal Police have arrested three men in connection with the gang-rape of a medical student in the state’s Paschim Bardhaman on Sunday. The victim, a second-year medical student, had stepped out of the college campus with a classmate to buy food when she was allegedly raped by the three men.
Adding impetus to the case, the college authorities also revealed the key timeline of the victim’s presence inside and outside the campus on the day the incident happened.
The medical college student, who hails from Odisha's Jaleswar, is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital and has given a statement to the law enforcement authorities.
In her statement, the student said she was dragged into a nearby jungle area by the attackers. The classmate, who accompanied her, ran away on seeing the attackers. Police said the role of the classmate is under scrutiny, and they are trying to find out whether the accused was known to the classmate or the victim.
The student was outside the college campus for nearly an hour and a half at night when the incident happened, Bengali newspaper Anaandbazaar Patrika reported.
The authorities of the private medical college provided this information in a statement. They said the girl had left the campus with her classmate at 7:58 pm. She returned to the campus alone at 8:42 pm. She went outside again after five to six minutes and re-entered the campus with her classmate at 9:29 pm. After that, she left for her hostel at 9:31 pm.
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The incident came to light after the student, on returning to the hostel, alerted everyone about the incident. Her friends contacted the police, and she was taken to the hospital immediately.
Police are reportedly probing in which window of time did the attack happened. “At 9 pm, our daughter’s friend called our house saying, 'Your daughter has been raped, come quickly!' When we arrived, we found our daughter in a serious condition," he told reporters.
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He also pointed fingers at her classmate. “One of her classmates took her out on the pretext of getting something to eat, but when two or three other men arrived, he abandoned her and fled. They raped her... This incident happened between 8 and 9 PM. The hostel was far away, and she had come here to eat,” he added.
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The police said they used the mobile phone tower dumping method to zero in on the accused. The accused persons had used the victim's mobile phone to call another accused to the crime spot, he said. This helped them identify the mobile phone numbers of all the accused, police said.
The police and forensic experts are also combing the jungle area where the incident allegedly happened to collect details. |
