Hospital staffer, 2 others held for gang rape of med student | Kolkata News - The Times of India

Durgapur: Three men, including a Group D staffer at a hospital, were arrested early on Sunday for the alleged gang rape of a 25-year-old second-year MBBS student near her college campus in Durgapur on Friday night.A classmate of the survivor, with whom she had stepped out of the campus on Friday evening, and another man have been detained for questioning.The accused -- Sk Riyazuddin, Apu Barui and Firdaus Sk -- were picked up from their homes at Birja village, less than a kilometre from the private medical college where the survivor studied and around 3 km from the crime scene. Firdaus was a Group D staffer at a private hospital in Durgapur.Police sources said officers tracked down the accused monitoring the location of the survivor's cellphone, which they had taken away.The man who has been detained along with the survivor's classmate has been identified as Sk Nasiruddin, 24, a resident of Birja. Officers said Nasiruddin's bike was used by the accused to flee the crime scene. The two-wheeler has been seized.The student from Balasore in Odisha was allegedly gang-raped by four or five men in an isolated forested stretch leading to the Paranganj Kalipara crematorium shortly after she had stepped out for dinner with the male classmate from Malda.The three accused were produced in a Durgapur court but no lawyer appeared for them. They were remanded in police custody for 10 days.Partha Ghosh, who appeared for the survivor, said, "Three persons have been arrested. Many more were involved. We are demanding custody trial and capital punishment. We urged the court to immediately get her statements recorded before a judicial magistrate and conduct a test identification parade."Asked about the allegation of the survivor's parents that the male friend with whom she had left the campus on Friday was involved in the crime, Ghosh said, "That is for police to find out. We do not want any innocent to be framed."The survivor's father, who had expressed concerns over the investigation on Saturday, said on Sunday the probe was "finally moving". But he said he wanted to take his daughter to Bhubaneswar to complete her medical education because she was feeling "insecure" in Durgapur and the family feared "she might be attacked" if she stayed on.Odisha govt officials who arrived in Bengal on Sunday to take stock of the investigation expressed satisfaction with the police action.