India, July 23 -- On June 25, a 24-year-old student was allegedly gang raped at Kolkata's South Calcutta Law College (SCLC). In her complaint, the student described the prime accused, Monojit Mishra, as an ex-college student, an official, and the unofficial head of the SCLC unit of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the students' wing of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), "who holds much power".

The student said that Mishra was allotting posts for the college's TMCP unit at the students' union room on the campus on June 25. She was appointed as a secretary, and the general secretary of the student union was also present as the posts were allotted.

In his social media profile, Mishra, who graduated in 2022, described himself as the for...