Kolkata gangrape HORROR: Victim’s nail scratch marks found on Monojit Mishra’s body, court extends police custody of accused till July 8

Kolkata gangrape case: Scientific doctors contain stumbled on nail scratch marks on the physique of Monojit Mishra, a frail TMC pupil chief who's the highest accused within the gangrape of a pupil at a Kolkata regulations college, at the same time as a metropolis court on Tuesday extended the police custody of all three accused, together with Mishra, by eight days except July 8.

Scratch marks stumbled on on top accused Monojit Mishra’s physique

Citing police sources, a PTI represent talked about that nail scratch marks, presumably inflicted by the sufferer, contain been stumbled on on Monojit Mishra’s physique in some unspecified time in the future of medical examination, indicating the survivor resisted the alleged rape that all by the room of a security guard on the South Calcutta Law Faculty on the evening of June 25, talked about an officer.

“There are signs of injuries, precisely scratch marks, on the physique of Monojit. These injuries are contemporary. Such injuries happen when anyone faces fight or resistance,” the officer talked about, in accordance to PTI.

However, the represent did now now not explicitly note whether or now now not the scratch marks contain been matched to the sufferer yet.

Court docket extends police custody of accused

Within the intervening time, a court in Kolkata Tuesday extended the police custody of all three accused–  Monojit Mishra, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee– in reference to the alleged gangrape case except July Eighth of this month.

The trio contain been arrested on June 26 and produced earlier than a court the next day, which in the initiating remanded them to four days of police custody. Upon production at Alipore Court docket on Tuesday, their police custody used to be extended except July 8.

A security guard of the college, Pinaki Banerjee, used to be also arrested on June 28 in reference to the case. His police custody used to be extended except July 4.

The extension of police custody came following a prayer by the final public prosecutor and the investigating officer, who sought overtime to search records from the accused. The accused trio’s defence lawyers did now now not circulate bail pleas and as a change instructed the court that their purchasers contain been fully cooperating with the investigation and are willing to relief bring out the reality.

In addition they entreated the court to ensure that no media trial takes role earlier than the bills are proven and requested that the accused now now not be “victimised” in some unspecified time in the future of.

The counsel of the safety guard pleaded for bail, arguing that his client had no prior criminal file and had now now not left his role of accountability. However, the plea used to be rejected and his police custody extended except July 4.

Kolkata gangrape

A first-300 and sixty five days pupil used to be allegedly gangraped by three men all by the safety guard’s room on the Kasba Law Faculty aka the South Calcutta Law Faculty on the evening of June 25. The incident took role when the 24-300 and sixty five days-mature sufferer used to be sitting within the union room at round 7 PM, when Mishra approached her and proposed to marry her, in accordance to a represent by Hindustan Times Bangla.

The pupil modified into down Mishra’s marriage proposal, following which he and two assorted accused, each and every senior college students on the Kasba Law Faculty, allegedly raped her all by the guard’s room. The alleged crime took role between 7.30 pm and 10.50 pm on June 25.

Following a preliminary medical examination of the sufferer and witness statements, the Kolkata Police registered an FIR within the case and arrested three accused, together with Monojit Mishra. Mishra and Zaib Ahmed contain been arrested on June 26 Siddhartha Shankar Roy Sishu Udyan at Talbagan, while the third accused, Pramit Mukherjee, used to be nabbed from his house on early Friday.

(With PTI inputs)