India, July 1 -- A court in Kolkata on Tuesday sent the three accused, arrested on charges of gang-raping a 24-year-old law college student on June 25, to police custody till July 8 even as the public prosecutor told the court that the nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) was looking for more pieces of evidence.

Meanwhile, the governing body of the South Calcutta Law College, where the incident took place, terminated the service of Monojit Mishra, a temporary staff in the college and the prime accused, and rusticated the two students- Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee.

Police had arrested Mishra, a TMC youth leader who is also a former student of the college, along with Ahmed and Mukherjee, two existing students, last week, in con...