Another Suzette: 3 Arrested in Connection With Kolkata Gangrape

The woman was found lying near a bus stop early on Sunday.

File photo of a demonstration demanding justice for Suzette Jordan, the Park Street rape victim. (Photo: IANS)

Three drivers who ferried employees of an IT company at night were arrested on Tuesday for the alleged gangrape of a 26-year-old in a vehicle in Kolkata’s Salt Lake on Sunday evening. The woman, who is in her 20s, was found lying near a bus stop. She was taken for medical tests.

Subhendu Nag (26), Sourav Dey (20), and Arnab Bera (25), who have been ferrying IT employees for over a year, were not on duty that night.

All of them are drivers of pool cars at the Unitech Building, outside which the girl was picked up on Sunday. They have confessed to their crime.

Jawed Shamim, Commissioner of Police, Bidhannagar

A fourth accomplice, a security guard and a friend of the trio, has not been arrested yet.

The drivers were tracked down using their cellphones’ GPS. By afternoon, they had confessed, the police said.

The three have been arrested under Section 376D (gang rape) of the IPC, which carries a maximum punishment of death.

Shibu Shaw, the owner of the agency, said he had run a background check on the drivers but none of them had a criminal record.

(With inputs from The Telegraph)