Victim's friend apprehended in Durgapur rape case, total arrests at 6
Kolkata (PTI): Police on Tuesday evening arrested a friend of the medical student of a private college, who was allegedly raped in West Bengal’s Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to six, a senior police officer said.
The accused had accompanied the victim when she had gone outside the campus of the medical college to fetch food on the evening of the alleged crime, he said.
The Malda resident was arrested after police found his replies to be incoherent, the officer said.
CCTV footage showed him accompanying the victim out of the college campus around 7.58 pm, police said.
He was then found returning to the campus alone at 8:42 pm and again coming out after some time.
The footage showed the victim and her college-mate entering the campus together around 9.29 pm, the officer said.
The woman’s father had earlier alleged that his daughter's friend "could have some vital role" behind the crime.
"I am sure that her friend definitely has some kind of involvement in the crime. He accompanied my daughter out of the college. I think this could be pre-planned, or else this could not have happened," he had said.
Earlier, five people were apprehended in connection with the case.
The second-year student hailing from Odisha's Jaleswar was allegedly raped outside the campus of the private medical college in Durgapur on October 10.
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J&K: One dead, seven hospitalised after consuming wild vegetable in Rajouri
Rajouri/Jammu (PTI): One person died while seven others, mostly children, were hospitalised after allegedly consuming a wild vegetable in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday.
The incident was reported from Mohra village in the Kotranka subdivision, where members of two families consumed a wild vegetable following which they started showing symptoms of food poisoning on Friday evening, they said.
The affected persons were initially shifted to the Community Health Centre in Kandi and later referred to the Government Medical College Hospital Rajouri for specialised treatment.
Officials said an elderly man, identified as Mohammad Hussain (60), died during treatment, while seven other members of the two families are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
“Prima facie, it is a case of food poisoning, but the matter is still under investigation,” a doctor said.
Officials said an investigation into the incident has been initiated to determine the exact cause of the poisoning.
