Salt Lake Gang Rape Case: Three Accused Arrested, Search Continues For Fourth

Kolkata: Three persons, who were found in connection with the gang rape of a 24- year-old Nepali woman on Monday night at Salt Lake, was arrested from Haroa in North-24 Parganas by the Electronics Complex Police Station of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate.

The three accused, Suvendu Nag (25), Saurav Dey (20) and Arnab Bera (24) were nabbed while the fourth, Bappa, is absconding, said the Bidhannagar City Police Commissioner Jawed Shamim. According to the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate, the arrested three were drivers in occupation. One of them used to drive a BPO pick-and-drop vehicle at Sector V, Salt Lake. All the three was reportedly found residents of Basirhat, a township in North-24-Parganas but were staying in and around Kolkata in regular basis.   

Reports are that the vehicle, in which the woman was reportedly abused, has been seized from Kestopur. Police found Nag’s identity card in the car, carrying the proof that he is an IT personnel in Sector V. “They had dumped the car at Beleghata in Kolkata and fled. They had taken shelter at the house of Nag’s relative in Haroa, from where they were arrested,” Bidhannagar City Police Commissioner Jawed Shamim said. He also added that the arrested three accepted their crime.

Also, medical tests, done yesterday of the abused woman, confirmed that it was a gang rape.

The woman, who hails from Nepal, had boarded an Uber cab on Monday in order to reach Salt Lake to meet a friend. However, the cab stopped several meters away from her destination due to wrong directions. The woman said that she sings in a bar, located at VIP Road. According to the complaint lodged to police, the woman said that she was waiting at Sector V when a man came and she asked him directions. Minutes later, a SUV reached and pulled her inside.

 “According to CCTV footage and eyewitnesses, the woman got into the car on her own. They stopped the car at a lonely stretch near water park Aquatica, where they took turns to rape her in the car. Around 3 am, she was pushed out of the car near Baishakhi More near Tank No 5 in Salt Lake. A cabbie helped her get to the Bidhannagar North police station,” police said after inspecting the CCTV footage of signals.