Fourth accused in gangrape arrested from Kolkata rly station

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Jun 15 2016 | 9:57 PM IST
The fourth accused in the alleged gangrape of a 24-year-old woman at Salt Lake's Sector-V in a moving vehicle on May 29 was today arrested from Kolkata Railway station, police said.
Subrata Dutta, a driver, was arrested today after a team of Bidhannagar Police laid a trap at the Railway station acting on a tip-off which stated that he was trying to flee, a senior police officer said.
While Dutta was absconding, three other accused were nabbed from a hideout at Haroa in North 24-Parganas district, a day after the alleged gangrape took place.
They were identified after the police examined CCTV footage of the crime, which has been preserved as an evidence, he said.
The incident occurred when the woman, singer at a bar on VIP road leading to the airport, had gone to a multiplex at Sector-V at Salt Lake to meet a friend.
She was waiting on the road for transport when three to four persons forced her in an SUV. They allegedly assaulted her and then took turns to rape her in the moving vehicle, police said.
The woman was dumped on the roadside in an unconscious state at Sector-1 in Salt lake and was rescued by a mobile unit of police in early hours of the next day.
An FIR was lodged with the Electronic Complex Police Station under Salt Lake Sector-V against four to five unknown persons on the basis of her statement given to the police alleging gangrape.
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First Published: Jun 15 2016 | 9:57 PM IST