Kolkata Police on Saturday arrested a security guard in the South Kolkata Law College rape case. This is the fourth arrest in this case. Earlier, three people, including a leader of the main accused Trinamool Congress, have been arrested. On June 25, a student of First Year was gang raped in the campus of South Kolkata Law College. According to police sources, preliminary investigation has revealed that the security guard Pinaki Banerjee was present in the campus at the time of gang rape. On the instructions of the accused, he left the student alone and left the guard room.
Police said that despite the woman repeatedly pleading for help, the guard did not help her. Sources said that it was the responsibility of the guard to inform the college administration or the police about the incident, but he did not do so. During interrogation, his negligence was confirmed, after which he was arrested. The main accused Monojit Mishra is accused of assaulting a 24 -year -old student for several hours in the security guard room on 25 June. The Trinamool Congress of Monojo College is the former president of the Congress Students’ Council Unit and is allegedly the organizational secretary of the South Kolkata Wing of TMC’s student organization. At the same time, two other students were in the room and kept standing and watching the crime.
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The father of one of the three accused students told the news agency ANI, ‘First I am a citizen of India, then father. The matter is under consideration in the court and the police is investigating. We trust the court … If he (his son) is found involved in the incident, he should be punished severely … We have full faith in Kolkata Police. The victim student alleged that the security guard was seated outside the room after closing the main gate of the college. He has also alleged that the security guards were present on the spot during the incident, yet he did not intervene. The main accused Monojit Mishra was arrested on 25 June, while co-accused first year student 19-year-old Jab Ahmed and second-year student Pramit Mukherjee were arrested on 26 June.
#Watch Kolkata, West Bengal | Father of one of the accused in the kolkata alleged gangrape case, say, “First I am a citizen of India, then a father. The matter is sub-judice and the police are carrying out the invoice. Court … Story Punishment… pic.twitter.com/Iibrzphofj
– ANI (@ani) June 28, 2025
According to the complaint of the student, when she reached the campus to fill the form for the exam, she was attacked. He was forcibly taken to the guard room, where his clothes were taken off and raped. According to the victim student, she was attacked when she rejected the marriage proposal of Monojo Mishra. According to the victim, Monojit recorded this entire act in her mobile phone and later used the video to blackmail and threaten her. According to the police, the allegations were confirmed in the medical examination and the rape with the student, the bite on the body and the nail scratches were found.
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After this incident, there was a political stir in West Bengal and widespread outrage against the ruling Trinamool Congress, especially due to the alleged involvement of a leader of the party’s student wing. The incident took place only a few months after the rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata. Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress condemned the gang rape and urged that the matter should not be politicized. Addressing a press conference, Women and Child Development and Social Welfare Minister of West Bengal Shashi Panja said that the state government is standing firmly with the victim student and her family.
The opposition BJP alleged that this incident highlights that students are not safe in educational institutions across the state. Union Minister and BJP’s West Bengal President Sukant Majumdar claimed that the law and order situation in the state is pathetic despite Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directly monitoring the Home Department. Sukant Majumdar was taken into custody on Saturday. At the Law College Campus, he attended a huge protest rally organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party against the gang rape with a first year student. The state BJP chief also accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of giving protection to the accused, as he is associated with his party.