6 held guilty for rape, murder of college student in Bengal

Kolkata: Three men convicted of raping and murdering a college student in West Bengal’s Kamduni village in 2013 were given the death sentence by a Kolkata court on Saturday.

The judge found the other three – Imanul Islam, Aminul Islam and Bhola Naskar guilty under sections 376(d) (gangrape), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of IPC.

In June 2013, a 20-year-old student was gangraped and brutally murdered when she was returning home alone at Kamduni, about 50 km from Kolkata, in North 24 Parganas district after appearing for an examination at her college on June 7, 2013. One of them- Gopal Naskar (65)- died of fever and septicaemia on Aug 1 past year in custody during the trial while the other eight are in judicial custody. “We want capital punishment for all of them”, said Mousumi Kayal, a Kamduni resident.

“Justice has failed us as two of the accused were acquitted and three were awarded life sentences”, the victim’s brother told AFP. The quantum of punishment will be announced within this week.

The victim was a BA second year student of Derozio College who was walking home along the Kamduni BDO office road.

Senior public prosecutor Dipak Ghosh told AFP that six accused were convicted of gang-raping the 21-year-old woman, as well as murder, interfering with evidence and other charges. After the assault, the monsters savaged her to death – they slit her throat, tore apart private parts and dumped the body in a field.

The victim’s identity has been concealed for legal reasons, but she was attacked after getting off a bus in her village, Kamduni, after finishing university exams in Kolkata, about 30 miles away.

She was gang-raped and gruesomely murdered subsequently.

Judge Sarkar pronounced the verdict after hearing the arguments of defence counsel Firoze Edulji and T. Ghosh against handing out of death sentence to the three convicts.