Student Gangraped in Polytechnic College

Student Gangraped: A first year student was stripped and gangraped in the union room of a government polytechnic college at Chittaranjan in West Bengal's Burdwan district. In a police complaint on Friday, her father accused Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad leader Samyo Mondal as one of the five men who raped her on Tuesday. Mondal is poised to become the general secretary of the college union. Bholu Yadav, a security guard at the college, is among the five named in the FIR. He was detained. The other four Mandal, Avik Ghosh, Bijoy Singh and Mithilesh Ojha are absconding.

The girl's father alleged the men tricked her into drinking beverage laced with drugs before raping her. They clicked pictures of the semi-conscious girl on their cellphones and made MMS clips. She was admitted to Chittaranjan Hospital and her statement was recorded at Asansol court on Friday. Police took her to Asansol subdivisional hospital for medical tests.

Sources said three students invited her to a birthday party in the union room. They offered her soft drinks which was spiked. They took pictures on their cellphones after they attacked her, said the girl's father. After she came to, the girl managed to return home, about 2km away from the college. She was traumatized. She couldn't even talk, he said when asked about the delay in lodging the police complaint.