India, June 27 -- After the alleged gang-rape of a female law student in a south Kolkata college stirred a political storm in Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress has admitted that the prime accused is linked to the party's student wing but assured that it would not come in the way of him getting the strictest possible punishment.

The law student was allegedly raped on the South Calcutta Law College campus in Kolkata's Kasba area on Wednesday between 7:30 pm and 8:50 pm by Monojit Mishra, a 31-year-old ex-student of the college, who is now a practising lawyer - and two students.

A glimpse of the South Kolkata Law College where the alleged gangrape occurred. Photo: X/BJP

The two other accused have been identified as 19-year-old Zaib Ah...