Student raped in Kolkata law college, political row erupts
Kolkata, June 28 -- Two students and a staffer of a government-run law college in the heart of Kolkata allegedly gang-raped a 24-year-old student and tried to hit her with a hockey stick, after the main accused pressured her for marriage, police said on Friday, as a huge political row erupted over the grim crime.
The Bharatiya Janata Party alleged that the main accused in the crime -- 31-year-old Monojit Mishra, a former student of the college who is a non-teaching staffer at the institution - was a key office-bearer of the student wing of the Trinamool Congress but the state's ruling party said he never held an important post.
Mishra's social media account said he was a former chief of TMC's youth wing in the college.
Police identified the...
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