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IIM-Calcutta student gets bail in alleged rape case
Kolkata: A trial court in Kolkata, on Saturday evening, granted an
interim bail
to a second year male student of Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Calcutta, a premier management institute in the country, gets bail on Saturday, a week after he was arrested and produced in court on July 12, for allegedly raping an outsider young woman on July 11.
The counsel of the accused argued about the non-cooperation by the victims woman— refusal to appear at the trial court thrice this week to get her confidential statement recorded in front of a judicial magistrate, her refusal to get medico-legal examination conducted and her refusal to submit to the investigating officials
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The judge granted an interim bail to the accused against a personal bail-bond of Rs 50,000. At the same time, the court imposed some restrictions on his movement during the interim bail woman, however, did not record her confidential statement before the judicial magistrate, did not undergo medic-legal test and refusal to submit clothes that she was wearing during the alleged event of rape, police sources said.
Police sources had said that the victim and her family members were allegedly not cooperating with the
investigation
. The victim did not undergo a medical test earlier on Saturday, police sources said.
According to complaint lodged by the young woman at Haridevpur Polcie station she was allegedly raped at the Calcutta boys' hostel last Friday.
A nine-member SIT has been formed by
Kolkata Police
last Sunday to probe the alleged rape inside IIM-Calcutta campus and CCTV footages have been sought from the institute, people in the know said.
The alleged victim's father last Saturday had told media persons that his daughter was not tortured or assaulted,and she had fallen from a vehicle and lost consciousness. The victim's father had also said that someone forcibly asked her daughter to write the police complaint.
The arrested accused Premanand Mahaveer Toppannavar @Parmanand Jain (26) is from Karnataka and he was a second year student of IIM-C. He was produced in a Kolkata court on July 12 and remanded to police custody till July 19. IIM-C authorities had said that they had cooperated with police in the probe.
