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College staffer among 3 held for gang-raping Bengal law student
Hindustan Times Pune
|June 28, 2025
Social media account of the prime accused said that he was a former chief of TMC's youth wing in the same college
KOLKATA: Two students and a staffer of a government-run law college in the heart of Kolkata allegedly gang-raped a 24-year-old student and tried to hit her with a hockey stick, after the main accused pressured her for marriage, police said on Friday, as a huge political row erupted over the grim crime.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that main accused in the crime—31-year-old Monojit Mishra, a former student of the college who is currently a non-teaching staffer at the institution—was a key office-bearer of the student wing of the Trinamool Congress but the state's ruling party said he never held any important position. Mishra's social media account said that he was a former chief of TMC's youth wing in the same college.
This story is from the June 28, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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