Key accused handled students’ queries before rape, show docs

THE COLLEGE ISSUED A NOTICE ASKING STUDENTS TO CONTACT MONOJIT MISHRA WITH ANY QUERIES

- Joydeep Thakur

Administrators at the South Calcutta Law College where a 24-year-old student was gangraped after college hours on June 25, issued last year a notice asking students to route any queries related to their dealings with the institution through Monojit Mishra, the main accused in the case, and also previously issued several notices asking students not to stay in the campus after college hours, documents reviewed by HT show.

Mishra, a graduate of the college later hired as a temporary staffer, was arrested with two existing students Promit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed, and a security guard, Pinaki Banerjee.

Police have said that Mishra, also a leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress's student unit in the college, has at least 11 criminal cases pending against him. At least four were related to molestation.