2016 Salt Lake gang-rape case: Barasat Court convicts four

Kolkata: Four persons identified as Arnab Bera, Subhendu Nag, Sourav Dey and Subrata Dutta were convicted for raping a young Nepali woman on Monday. The crime took place in 2016, when the woman was pulled inside a car and gang-raped multiple times.

During trial of the case, the mobile tower locations of the accused persons as well as the woman turned out to be helpful for the police.

On May 29, 2016, the woman had got down from a taxi near a bar at Salt Lake, Sector V. She had asked a local person about the location of a tea shop in the area. While talking to him, she did not notice the person call someone.

All of a sudden, a white SUV stopped beside her and three passengers from the car pulled her in. The person whom she had asked for the address also got into the SUV and it started moving towards New Town.

After almost four hours of repeated gang-rape, the four accused were talking about killing her as they may get caught, which the woman heard while she was lying almost unconscious.

Hearing this, she suddenly opened a door of the SUV and jumped on the road on the wee hours of May 30. While jumping from the car, a mobile phone which belonged to one of the accused persons also fell with her accidentally, while her own phone remained inside the vehicle.

During investigation, sleuths located the mobile tower location and got hold of the four accused. During the Test Identification (TI) parade, the woman identified them. Prosecution then filed a chargesheet containing 200 pages against the four.

During the trial, details of mobile phone tower locations were exhibited as electronic evidence. On Monday, Barasat Court pronounced them guilty on charges of kidnapping and gang-rape. The quantum of punishment is likely to be announced on Wednesday.