India, June 30 -- Kolkata Police has identified and arrested Monojit Mishra as the main accused in the gangrape of a 24-year-old law student at South Calcutta Law College. However, this is not the first offence that Mishra has been linked with.

The 31-year-old is reportedly a history-sheeter with a string of past criminal charges.

Monojit Mishra, who is a practising criminal lawyer at Alipore court, was arrested along with two others for allegedly assaulting the first-year student on the Kolkata college campus on June 25.

Police said the assault took place inside the security guard's room between 7:30 PM and 10:50 PM on June 25. Mishra and two students - Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukherjee (20) - were arrested on Thursday, while the g...