B-school rape plaint: student gets bail
The court questioned the delay in recording the survivor's confessional statement before the magistrate.
Incidentally, the woman had missed three dates set for recording of her statement before the court. Since lodging the complaint on July 11, she didn't hand over her clothes, cellphones and also didn't agree for a medico-legal test. Her father claimed that police had forced her to file the plaint and that nothing had happened to her.
Demanding bail, the accused's lawyer, Subrata Sardar, argued that the complainant was "untraceable" and termed the FIR as "questionable" while presenting how the survivor didn't appear before the court to record her statement thrice and no reason was cited.
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State counsel Sourin Ghosal argued that there were no lapses in probe while stressing that the survivor was still under trauma. The magistrate finally granted Toppannawar bail against a bond of Rs 50,000.
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