A court, on Sunday, sent the three youths, arrested for their alleged involvement in the gang-rape of a student of a private medical college in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, to 10-day police custody.
The arrested three persons were produced before the Durgapur Sub-divisional Court. The judge ordered the accused persons to be remanded in police custody for 10 days. The prosecution lawyer prayed for their police custody for questioning in order to arrest other persons involved in the alleged crime.
The charges pressed against the accused persons include gang-rape and criminal conspiracy.
According to sources in police, the mobile phone of the girl has been recovered from the arrested persons.
Police sources also claimed that they have found direct evidence against the three arrested persons. The police are meanwhile looking for two other accused persons and initiated a search to nab them.
The arrested persons in Durgapur gang-rape case have been identified as Seikh Reajuddin, Apu Bauri and Firdos Seikh.
Meanwhile, a forensic team reached the crime spot and collected the evidence.
The medical college student hailing from Odisha was allegedly gangraped outside the campus of the private medical college in Durgapur on Friday night when she went out with a friend for dinner.
On Friday, the second-year medical student hailing from Odisha was allegedly gang-raped outside the campus in Durgapur after she went outside with her male friend for dinner. Then, a group of young men on motorcycles accosted them and passed objectionable remarks at them.
The men allegedly chased away the male friend, dragged the medical student to a forest area behind the campus, and gang-raped her.
The accused also snatched the victim’s mobile phone and threw it away. The male friend returned with others from the medical college and found the injured medical student on the ground.
She was taken to a local hospital where she is undergoing treatment.
A complaint was lodged at the Durgapur New Township Police against five persons.
After the incident came to light, the police detained the male friend of the medical student and started questioning him.
According to police sources, Deputy Magistrate Ranjana Roy also spoke to the medical student and recorded her statement.
According to police sources, after arresting the three accused persons, they were presented before the male friend of the victim.
The classmate of the medical student identified three of the accused persons. The victim was also shown the photographs of the three accused.
Police sources claim that she also identified the three accused.
