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Kolkata, Oct 13 (IANS) A Kolkata court on Monday granted bail to one of the four accused in the rape case of a law student in the city’s Kasba college campus earlier this year.
The accused person granted bail is law college security guard Pinaki Banerjee, who was the “only helpless” witness to the crime perpetrated on her, according to the victim’s statement recorded with the police soon after the incident on the evening of June 25.
However, the investigating officers convicted him on the grounds that he remained a silent spectator when the law student was being raped in the guard room of the college campus.
Nearly four months after he was arrested by the police, the accused was granted bail by a Kolkata court on Monday on a personal bond of Rs 20,000.
However, three other accused in the case, Monojit Mishra, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay, will remain in judicial custody.
While Mishra has been identified as the perpetrator of the crime of rape of a law college student, Ahmed and Mukhopadhyay have been identified as masterminds in the crime.
Pinaki Banerjee’s lawyer, reacting to his client being granted bail, said that the investigating officers could not prove that his client had any involvement in the crime.
“Other security personnel at the college gave statements that the environment there was such that my client had virtually nothing to do to stop the crime,” he said.
Monojeet Mishra, an alumnus of the college and also a contractual employee of the institute, has a past criminal history.
College officials have been accused of offering him contractual appointment ignoring his past criminal record.
Mishra and the other two accused in the case, Jaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay, were actively associated with the student wing of the Trinamool Congress.
–IANS
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