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Two much persons were arrested connected Monday (October 13, 2025) successful transportation with the alleged pack rape of a 23-year-old aesculapian pupil successful West Bengal's Durgapur, taking the full fig of arrests successful the lawsuit to five, constabulary said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate, Abhisekh Gupta, told PTI, "Two much arrests person been made. With these, each 5 accused person been taken into custody connected the ground of the ailment filed by the survivor." The second-year pupil of a backstage aesculapian assemblage successful Durgapur, hailing from Jaleswar successful Odisha's Balasore district, was allegedly gang-raped connected Friday (October 10_ nighttime erstwhile she went extracurricular the assemblage field with a antheral person to person dinner.
According to constabulary sources, the pupil had initially submitted a little written connection of 3 to 4 lines to the assemblage authorities, stating that she and her person were walking extracurricular the field erstwhile they were abruptly surrounded by a radical of men who past assaulted her.
The connection was aboriginal forwarded to the police, pursuing which an FIR was lodged and an probe initiated.
Based connected the student's complaint, the constabulary determined that the incidental occurred betwixt 8 p.m. and 8.45 p.m. connected Friday.
Investigators said that 3 men initially surrounded the pupil and snatched distant her telephone erstwhile she tried to telephone her friends for help. Two much persons aboriginal joined them, and unneurotic the 5 men allegedly raped her.
The accused besides offered her ₹5,000 to permission quietly, constabulary sources said.
The survivor's antheral friend, who was accompanying her, is presently nether constabulary detention for questioning.
Investigators said his movements and behaviour connected the nighttime of the incidental person raised suspicion. According to the survivor's father, who has besides filed a abstracted complaint, the person fled the country erstwhile the accused surrounded the woman.
Police sources said investigators are examining wherefore helium did not alert different students oregon question assistance from the assemblage aft fleeing.
The 3 accused arrested earlier were produced earlier the Durgapur Sub-Divisional Court connected Sunday (October 12) and remanded to 10 days of constabulary custody.
Searches were underway for others who whitethorn person been progressive oregon person cognition of the crime, constabulary said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who besides holds the location portfolio, has assured strict enactment against those involved.
"None of the accused volition beryllium spared," she said connected Sunday.
Banerjee besides questioned the information arrangements astatine backstage aesculapian colleges.
Odisha State Commission for Women (OSCW) chairperson Sovana Mohanty connected Monday near for West Bengal to conscionable the aesculapian student, her parents and besides clasp discussions with the section police.
Meanwhile, an Odisha authorities delegation, comprising a pistillate member, a constabulary officer, and a territory official, visited Durgapur connected Sunday to conscionable the survivor.
However, they were allegedly not allowed to participate the hospital. The squad reportedly had to hold extracurricular for a agelong clip and yet returned without gathering the survivor.
Police said the aesculapian pupil is presently undergoing attraction and remains nether observation.
