Gangrape accused sent to police custody

One of the accused in the January 19 gangrape in the city has been remanded in police custody till February 3 while Kolkata Police are on the lookout for the four others, a senior police official said today.
"Mohammed Hamid alias Raja, has been sent to police custody till February 3 by the court. We are on a look out for the rest of the accused in the gangrape case," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh said.
Hamid, a drug addict, was arrested last evening in connection with the gangrape and had also admitted his crime , Kolkata Police Commissioner S K Purakayastha had said yesterday.

A 21-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by five-six youths in a truck, who also looted her belongings and then dropped her in a deserted place in the city on the night of January 19.
According to police, the truck in which the crime took place had been tracked down and the spot where it took place was identified.
Police are checking CCTV footage and a team of the detective department of Kolkata is looking into the case.