‘Aides filmed rape videos on rapist's mobile, used footage to blackmail girl'
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Kolkata: The rape videos found on accused Monojit Mishra's cellphone were filmed by aides Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee. Monojit had asked them to shoot from an angle from which the survivor's body and face were clearly visible, cops said.
"The girl, in her complaint as well as her statement, said that there were multiple videos shot by the accused which they used to blackmail her during and after the crime. She also wrote in the complaint that the duo took two videos while Monojit was forcibly undressing her. We found all those videos on Mishra's cellphone, and the content matched her claim," said a senior Kolkata Police officer.
Police seized the phones of Monojit and two co-accused — Pramit Mukherjee and Zaib Ahmed — during their arrest.
The videos were found only on Monojit's cellphone. The videos have been sent for examination at the Cyber Forensics & Digital Evidence Examiners Laboratory in Salt Lake for digital forensic analysis. Alongside the crime videos, police said they found a slew of other objectionable content on Monojit's mobile.
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TOI reported on Sunday about Monojit's practice of manipulating photos of young women by superimposing them onto explicit images and sharing them with his inner circle.
According to acquaintances, he regularly captured intimate moments with female companions and distributed these recordings to others. His compulsion to film extended to various situations, including confrontations and violent incidents.
"He and his aides would take photos of women, post them in groups, and engage in body shaming, tarnishing their reputations by discussing their physical appearances," a friend said.
A first-year student told TOI that Mishra controlled all WhatsApp groups where crucial announcements were shared, with complete authority to manage membership. "It was a standard practice to share photos of our female colleagues and make unsuitable remarks.
He had complete access throughout the campus. Students sought his assistance in university-related matters."
Police said they also retrieved CCTV footage from the college that shows the survivor running toward the locked main gate, seemingly attempting to escape.
The footage also shows two men dragging her back to the security guard's room. Police added Mishra was telling investigators that the intercourse between him and the woman was consensual and that she lodged an FIR to malign him. None of the three accused denied their presence on the campus at the time of crime, but they claimed a different version of the incident.
"However, the footage contradicts their claims," said an officer. Cops said they were also checking if Mishra had access to the footage from CCTVs. On Sunday, cops also visited Pramit Mukherjee's Howrah home to check if he stored any other videos on his home computer. Cops took Mukherjee to his home amid protests by locals and stayed there for more than two hours.
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