Asansol, October 12: A first year polytechnic college student at Chittaranjan in Bardhaman was allegedly ragged, drugged and gang-raped within the college compound by students union member.
According to the police complaint filed by her father, the accused captured an MMS of the victim while she lay at the college union room. The victim has been admitted to Chittaranjan hospital.
The victim's father, has named three students including a third year student who happens to be a Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) leader Samyo Mandal, set to become general secretary of the college student's union. TMCP is the student wing of the Trinamool Congress.
The act has shocked the state capital and caused anxiety and insecurity among the residents of Railway Colony, in Chittaranjan. The victim's father filed the complaint only a day after the father of Siddhant Mundra, a first year mechanical engineering student of Jadavpur University lodged a police complaint against hostel inmates on Thursday.
The Chittaranjan girl was gang-raped three days ago on Tuesday. In his complaint filed on Friday morning, the victim's father complains that her daughter was given drugs mixed with soft drinks at the college union room. When she lost control of her senses, the four youth including the TMCP leader overpowered her. They subjected her to ragging. Later, they gang-raped the first year student.
"They didn't spare my daughter even after the gang-rape. They took pictures of her with their cell phones," the father said. When asked about the delay in his complaint, he said that his daughter was not in her senses for the first 24 hours. "She couldn't even talk. I got to know about the incident when she regained her consciousness," he said.
Kazi Nazrul Centenary Polytechnic College principal Rituparna Bose said that a four-member enquiry committee has been set up to probe the complaint. Bose initially denied the ragging complaint but conceded that he had no knowledge of the presence of an outsider in the college union room where a section of students drink alcohol on a regular basis.
The college principal has ordered to lock the student's union room and canteen on Friday and promised to offer all help to the police.
Sources said that the girl was invited to a birthday party by her three seniors and offered soft drinks mixed with drugs. She managed to return home after gaining consciousness.
While college TMCP leader Samyo Mondal is the main accused, the two others are Avik Ghosh and Bijoy Singh alias Bholu. However, the outsider Mithilesh Ojha from Jharkhand is absconding.
Ashok Rudra, TMCP leader of Asansol condemned the incident and claimed that the main accused Samyo Mondal is not at present a TMCP member. "I have requested the police to arrest all the culprits,"he said.
Ajay Kumar Nand, commissioner of Asansol Durgapur Police commissionerate said that the victim's father has submitted a written complaint and also later lodged FIR at Rupnarayanpur police outpost. On the basis of the complaint police have started a case. The victim has also recorded her statement before the judge at Asansol court on Friday.
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