WB prime accused in Kasba college gang rape a repeat offender:Former students

Kolkata: 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.

            Mishra vanished from police radar in 2013, the same year he took admission in the law college, after he was charged with stabbing a youth on the Chetla Bridge under Kalighat police station jurisdiction and was rusticated from the institution.

            He had already joined the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad ranks by then and was wielding considerable influence in his institution, a former student of the college recollected.

            “In December 2016, he was accused of leading a mob of outsiders to vandalise the college premises. FIRs and counter-FIRs were lodged at the Kasba police station in connection with the incident, but for some unknown reason, the cases got dropped,” Titas Manna, a former student of the college told a local news channel.

            Mishra resurfaced, police said, in 2017 when he took re-admission in the same college to study law and remained a student until he passed out in 2022.

            Some of his batch mates and contemporaries describe him as a ‘perpetual trouble maker’ who harassed girls inside the TMCP-run union office on the college campus on flimsy grounds.