PTI | June 28, 2025, Kolkata, Jun 28, 2025 : Kolkata Police on Saturday arrested a security guard of a law college here in connection with the alleged gang rape of a first-year student of the institute earlier this week, an officer said.
The total number of arrests has now reached four in the crime that took place inside the guard’s room on the college premises on June 25.
The city police also formed a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by an assistant commissioner rank officer, to probe the case, even as outrage over the incident continued to grow.
Meanwhile, tensions flared up as the police stopped a BJP protest march to the college and detained the party’s West Bengal unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and several other leaders.
The BJP accused the West Bengal government of failing to ensure campus safety and demanded swift action against the culprits in the alleged gang rape incident.
The guard failed to carry out his duty, the officer said, adding that the police were trying to find out whether he was alone on duty at that time or not.
The 24-year-old victim of the South Calcutta Law College was allegedly raped by two senior students and an alumnus of the institution in the guard’s room on June 25.
Following her complaint, the police arrested prime accused Manojit Mishra, Promit Mukherjee and Zaid Ahmed.
The 3-km protest march was planned by the BJP from the Gariahat crossing to the South Calcutta Law College in the Kasba area.
BJP president J. P. Nadda has formed a four-member committee which will visit the state to investigate the matter and submit its findings, the party’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
Biplab Kumar Deb and Manan Kumar Mishra, both MPs, and Satyapal Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi, both former parliamentarians, are its members.
The BJP in New Delhi said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should apologise and offer to resign over the alleged gang rape of the law college student in Kolkata, claiming that all the accused were linked to the ruling Trinamool Congress.
He also said, “The CM is not only the Chief Minister but also our Police Minister. Police personnel act like Trinamool Congress workers. They are preventing us from conducting a protest rally. Mamata does not want Sukanta Majumdar to hold any rally here,” he said.
