India, July 2 -- Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the gang-rape of a 24-year-old law student in Kolkata, has told his lawyers that "scratch marks" found on his body during a medical examination were "love bites".

"...I asked him ((Monojit) what happened that he has such serious allegations against him. He told me that everyone is making him out to be a villain. I told him that it is being said that he has several scratch marks from nails on his body...He took off his shirt, I showed him one mark (points at the neck) and asked him what it is," Manojit Mishra's lawyer, Raju Ganguly, told ANI on Wednesday.

"He told me it is a 'love bite'. When I asked him who gave him that, the Police took him away...I could not see any scratch marks f...