DNA Samples of 3 Accused Collected

The Assault on the Woman Was Planned Earlier by Three of the Four Arrested Accused

- Shruti Kakkar

KOLKATA: The DNA samples of the three accused in the gang rape of a student of a law college in Kolkata were collected on Monday as part of the investigation, a police officer said.

The police also suspect that the torture of the 24-year-old woman was pre-planned.

The three arrested accused—alumnus Monojit Mishra and current students Pratim Mukherjee and Zaid Ahmed—were taken to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, where their body fluid, urine, and hair samples were collected for forensic examination, he said.

The first-year student of South Calcutta Law College in the city's Kasba area was gang-raped allegedly by the three on the evening of June 25.

A team of doctors extracted the samples from the accused, and the process lasted for nearly eight hours and was sent to the forensic examination, he said.