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Kolkata: The role of the law college administration in allowing Monojit Mishra to handle student affairs or to operate with a free hand despite repeated complaints against him has come under the scanner of Calcutta University. The notice on the college website that asked students to contact Mishra's mobile number for any student-related affairs has raised questions about the real intent of the college administration in directing all student-related queries to him.Mishra, the key accused in the gang-rape case and popularly known as 'Mango', was assigned to look after student affairs even after his past records as a student were known. The college issued a notice on Aug 13 last year after Mishra was appointed as a casual staffer, stating: "Students of all semesters are hereby informed that for any query related to student dealings of the college, contact Mishra." Another staffer's name and number were given, but Mango played a key role.The notice was issued barely a month after Mishra was appointed as a casual staffer who didn't have specific work but had access everywhere, even to confidential matters. Several students on the campus stated that Mishra had full access to the student database, including their addresses and contact numbers.A third-year student said, "I faced an issue over a scholarship due to some minor problem in my previous marksheet. As per the notice given by the college, I sent a message to Mango-da to solve this issue. He asked me how I was, and when I asked him the same question, he replied, 'I love you'. I immediately stopped the conversation and left the chat. Later, I went to the office and solved my issue on my own. The question is why the college authority allowed such a person to deal with students who had past incidents."His colleagues stated that Team MM was the privileged section who got favours whether the matter was related to form fill-up or other official matters; they didn't need to stand in long queues.A first-year student stated that last year, he saw Mishra playing an active role in working for students' benefits, which increased his popularity and acceptability, especially among students.A third-year student said: "Mango-da was like SRK on our campus. From students to teachers, all knew that Mango had solutions to any problem, and he presented himself as the highest authority on campus who could influence the vice-principal, too. When everybody knew about his activities, why was he given free rein to do anything he wanted?"TOI tried to get a reaction from vice-principal Nayna Chatterjee but she did not receive the call.
Kolkata, Jul 10 (PTI) The West Bengal government on Thursday submitted a progress report before the Calcutta High Court on the investigation by the Kolkata Police into the alleged gang rape of a student in a law college here. The court also looked into the case diary of the police in the alleged gang rape of a student by an alumnus and two seniors on South Calcutta Law College campus. The progress report on the investigation was submitted in a sealed envelope. A division bench presided by Justice Soumen Sen directed the state government to submit a report on further progress in the investig ...Read More >
Kolkata: Calcutta University has released a list of 12 centres where the first-semester examination for LLB will be held from July 16, excluding the college in south Kolkata where the rape incident occurred on June 25. The CU controller section has distributed these candidates among two other colleges.Meanwhile, around 200 students from this college are likely to take their first-semester examination at the department of law. Among four govt-aided colleges, this represents the highest number of examinees who will write their first-semester examination.Calcutta University's fact-finding team is ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 28 (PTI) CCTV camera footage obtained from South Calcutta Law College has corroborated the gangrape allegations made by a first-year student in her written complaint to police, an investigating officer said on Saturday. The footage, spanning over seven hours -- from 3.30 PM to 10.50 PM on June 25 -- captured movements around the college premises, including the victim being forced into the guard's room. "The CCTV footage confirms the girl's allegations. It shows the movements of the three accused, the security guard, and the victim. We are currently examining the footage," the of ...Read More >
A Kolkata court extended police custody for the accused in the Kasba gangrape case. The accused include Monojit Mishra and two students, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee. A security guard, Pinaki Banerjee, also remains in custody. Defence lawyers requested fair investigation and opposed media trial. The court rejected bail for the security guard.The police custody of the three accused in connection with the alleged gangrape of a first-year student at a law college in Kolkata's Kasba area on Tuesda ...Read More >
West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, along with other party leaders, were detained by police during a rally protesting the alleged gang rape of a student at South Calcutta Law College. The BJP's march towards the college was halted at Gariahat crossing.The police on Saturday stopped a BJP rally led by its West Bengal unit chief Sukanta Majumdar and detained him along with several other party leaders when they tried to take out the protest march to a law college in the city, where a student was ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): As the Digital India Mission completed 10 years on Tuesday, BJP leader Pradeep Bhandari drew contrast between the BJP and the opposition bloc and said that while the INDI Alliance is associated with 'corruption and nepotism,' the Modi government is associated with the model of development. The BJP leader praised the central government for the success of Digital India and stated that the country now accounts for 50 per cent of global financial transactions, a testament to Prime Minister Modi's development model. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, P ...Read More >
The Bar Council of West Bengal took decisive action. It expelled Monojit Mishra, the main suspect in a gang rape case. Mishra's name was removed from the advocate rolls. The South Calcutta Law College also terminated Mishra's employment. Two students, Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee, were expelled. They were also arrested in connection with the crime.The Bar Council of West Bengal on Wednesday decided to expel Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the gang rape case, from its membership and struck ...Read More >
Kolkata: A court in Kolkata on Tuesday sent the three accused, arrested on charges of gang-raping a 24-year-old law college student on June 25, to police custody till July 8 even as the public prosecutor told the court that the nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) was looking for more pieces of evidence. Meanwhile, the governing body of the South Calcutta Law College, where the incident took place, terminated the service of Monojit Mishra, a temporary staff in the college and the prime accused, and rusticated the two students- Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee. Police had arrested Mish ...Read More >
Monojit Mishra, the main suspect in the Kolkata law college gang rape case, has a history of sexual harassment and violent crimes. Despite multiple FIRs and complaints against him across several police stations, he often evaded legal consequences, allegedly due to his political connections within the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad.The prime accused in the Kolkata law college gang rape case, Monojit Mishra, is a history-sheeter having a slew of pending cases of sexual harassment and violent c ...Read More >
The Kolkata Rape Case: Monojit Mishra, the key accused in the Kolkata law college gangrape case, continued to create headlines with shocking revelations about his wrongdoings as the investigation in the Kolkata law student gangrape case progressed. The latest disclosure is that Mishra had turned the union room at the Calcutta Law College into a bar and party spot. NDTV, quoting his batchmate, reported that the rape accused used to drink alcohol with his friends in the union room every evening. The woman, a student of 2016-batch of the same college, said Mishra, also known as Mango, used to ha ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the state currently has 10 per cent forest cover, and the aim of the government is to have 16 per cent of forest cover in the state. 'The campaign 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' that we started in alignment with the Prime Minister's vision on World Environment Day - June 5, 2025, is achieving new heights of success. On June 29, this campaign moved ahead, and on July 9, it will achieve a new height when 37 crore saplings will be planted across Uttar Pradesh... I am happy that the 210 crore tree pla ...Read More >
New Delhi: The political fallout between US President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk escalated sharply on Sunday, with Trump slamming Musk's newly announced "America Party" as a recipe for "total disruption and chaos." In a blistering post on his Truth Social account, Trump said Musk had "gone off the rails," accusing the Tesla and SpaceX chief of pursuing a "third political party" that would never succeed in America's entrenched two-party system. The comments come a day after Musk formally unveiled the America Party in response to Trump's sweeping tax cuts law, signalling the most s ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 30 (PTI) The prime accused in the Kolkata law college gang rape case, Monojit Mishra, is a history-sheeter having a slew of pending cases of sexual harassment and violent crimes registered against him, police said on Monday. Mishra's ties with criminal activities are not just confined within the boundaries of the South Calcutta Law College where he allegedly led the sexual assault against his latest victim on June 25 but has been previously arrested and charge-sheeted for violent crimes committed outside the campus as well, police added. Also Read | T Raja Singh Resigns: Jolt to ...Read More >
Kolkata: Students of South Calcutta Law College where a woman was gang raped last month, held a demonstration Tuesday, demanding safety on the college campus. They organised the protest in front of the college, holding placards and raising slogans for justice, and stressed the need for comprehensive reforms in the governing body of the institute. Two students, accused of the gang rape of the 24-year-old woman, were expelled from the college, while the service of a contractual employee, the main accused, was terminated by the authorities. A protesting student said, "Individuals involved in t ...Read More >
Kolkata: Monojit Mishra, accused of raping a first-year student at a law college last Wednesday, was so powerful that he allegedly influenced the rescheduling of class hours from 7.30 am to 9 am. Questions are now being raised how could a morning college start classes at 9 am.The college governing body on Tuesday decided to return to the original schedule of 7 am to 2 pm, which was in place until June last year. Then suddenly, the first class was scheduled to start at 7.30 am and in Aug last year, the college again changed the schedule, starting classes from 9 am. "We suddenly received a new r ...Read More >
Mysuru: Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar sought blessings at Chamundeshwari temple atop Chamundi Hills and later said that while "efforts may fail, but not prayers", signalling his ambition for the state's top post remains undimmed despite Siddaramaiah reaffirming that he would stay chief minister for a full five-year term.Joined by family on Ashada Friday, widely considered auspicious, Shivakumar offered puja to the deity and underlined his faith in divine intervention. "I prayed to the Goddess for what I want," he told reporters, but refused to discuss his long-rumoured chief ministerial ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 6 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the state currently has 10 per cent forest cover, and the aim of the government is to have 16 per cent of forest cover in the state. 'The campaign 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' that we started in alignment with the Prime Minister's vision on World Environment Day - June 5, 2025, is achieving new heights of success. On June 29, this campaign moved ahead, and on July 9, it will achieve a new height when 37 crore saplings will be planted across Uttar Pradesh... I am happy that the 210 crore tree pla ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 12 (PTI) A woman was allegedly raped by a student inside a hostel of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, police said on Saturday. The accused has been arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the woman at Haridevpur police station, they said. The alleged incident took place inside the boys' hostel of IIM Calcutta on Friday, a police officer said. "The woman stated in the FIR that she was called to the hostel for a counselling session. She then became unconscious after consuming a drink laced with drugs at the hostel. The woman realised she had been raped after regaini ...Read More >
Kolkata Gangrape: The notoriety of thirty-one-year-old Manojit Mishra, the prime accused held in connection with the recent gang-rape at a law college in Kolkata, was such that after he re-joined the South Calcutta Law College in mid-2024 as an ad-hoc staff, the female students started feeling unsafe, started skipping classes and the attendance among girl students dropped sharply. Mishra, a former student and current Organising Secretary of the South Kolkata district of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), along will three other accused, has been held in connection with the gang-ra ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Monojit Mishra, one of the three accused and reportedly the main architect in the law college student gang-rape case, made as many as 16 calls in three hours after the crime incident took place on the evening of June 25. Those call details are currently being examined by the investigating sleuths, and at the same time, the process of interrogation of those with whom Mishra conversed during that period has started. The tower locations of the mobile phones of the three accused, namely Mishra, Jaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay, during that period are being trac ...Read More >
Dehradun, Jul 6 (PTI) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday said that public cooperation is needed along with government's efforts to ban forced religious conversions in the backdrop of a demographic change in the state. Addressing the programme 'Developed Uttarakhand @2047, Samuhik Samvad With Ex-Servicemen' here, Dhami said that his government has taken bold steps, including strict action against land encroachment, Uniform Civil Code along, and implementing strict anti-riot law. However, extensive public cooperation is necessary for the effective implementation of these e ...Read More >