Kolkata gangrape survivor was given inhaler so she could be brutalised: Lawyer tells court

The victim, a law student was allegedly raped on the South Calcutta Law College campus in Kolkata's Kasba area on Wednesday between 7:30 pm and 8:50 pm by Monojit Mishra, a 31-year-old alumni and Trinamool Congress functionary, who is now a practising lawyer - and two current students.

The two other accused have been identified as 19-year-old Zaib Ahmed and 20-year-old Pramit Mukhopadhyay. All three have been arrested.

In her complaint, the student had said she suffered a panic attack before the assault on her, and Mishra, asked one of the other accused to get an inhaler for her.

She used the inhaler, felt better and tried to escape, but the accused dragged her to the security guard's room and allegedly raped her .

While Mishra raped her, Ahmed and Mukhopadhyay recorded the act.

During a hearing in a Kolkata court seeking 10-day police custody of the accused, the public prosecutor said the survivor's allegations are being confirmed through medical and electronic evidence.

First, the survivor was brutally assaulted. When her health deteriorated, she was given an inhaler. The inhaler was not given so that she could recover, but so that she could be brutalised again as soon as she recovered," the prosecutor said.

Monojit Mishra is a member of the TMC's student wing, and the BJP has shared photographs of him with senior members of the ruling party, including MP, National General Secretary, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, as well as Health Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya.

The court granted the Kolkata Police custody of Mishra and the two students till July 8, and of the security guard till Friday.

The incident came to light less than a year after a doctor was raped and murdered in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in 2024.