Kolkata regulation pupil ‘gang-rape’: Faculty safety guard held; 4th arrest in case | Kolkata Information

NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police on Saturday arrested a campus safety guard, marking the fourth arrest within the alleged gang-rape case of a regulation pupil at a Kolkata school.The arrest comes two days after a 24-year-old regulation pupil from South 24 Parganas accused a number of people of sexually assaulting her within the safety guards’ room of her school on Wednesday night. She advised police she had been provided a key pupil union submit earlier than the alleged assault.Three people — Manojit Mishra, a former pupil and now ad-hoc staffer; and two present college students, Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed — have been arrested on Thursday.The principle accused Mishra, who had been expelled from the school’s Trinamool Congress pupil wing in 2021, accomplished his regulation diploma in 2022 however later returned to the campus in a non-teaching position. Mukherjee, a first-year pupil, and Ahmed, in his second yr, are believed to be shut associates of Mishra.In keeping with the survivor, she had stayed again on the union room on Wednesday night after being requested by Mishra and others. She was allegedly provided biscuits and promised a place within the union. She stated Mishra later proposed marriage, and after she refused, she was dragged to the guards’ room the place the assault occurred.In her criticism, the lady stated she was threatened with video recordings of the incident and overwhelmed with a hockey stick when she tried to withstand. She was reportedly launched solely after pleading she was experiencing a panic assault. Her father picked her up from the school later that night time.She filed a police criticism the subsequent day. Investigating officers stated medical checks have been carried out at Calcutta Nationwide Medical Faculty and Hospital, and statements from witnesses have been recorded. Senior officers, together with the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime & Visitors) and the Deputy Commissioner of the South Suburban Division, visited the school on Friday.(The sufferer’s identification has not been revealed to guard her privateness as per Supreme courtroom directives on instances associated to sexual assault)