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Indian Express
2 days ago
- Indian Express
IIM-C's academic council to take call on student arrested for rape
The Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) has called a meeting of its academic council this week over the arrest of a second-year student in a rape case. Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, 26, was arrested last Saturday for allegedly raping a young woman in a hostel room on the Joka campus of the institute. He is in police custody till July 19. According to an official of the premier institute, the academic council will take a call on whether to allow Toppannawar to attend classes if the court grants him bail. 'Attendance is mandatory in the two-year MBA programme. Since Toppannawar is in police custody, he has missed some classes. So, the academic council of the institute has to take a legal opinion regarding whether to allow him to attend classes if he gets bail. If he is found guilty, his degree will be cancelled,' said an official. Following the arrest of the student in the rape case, the IIM-C, in a statement, had said: 'The institute has zero tolerance for such incidents and remains steadfast in upholding a safe and respectful campus environment. We are also taking all necessary steps to support the process of ongoing investigation and ensure that institutional protocols are adhered to.' The IIM-C had also sent an email to students, asking them to reach out to the institute's Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) and student council with any concerns or questions. A standard operating protocol (SOP) was also circulated for the students and professors living on the campus. Meanwhile, the SIT of Kolkata Police, which is probing the rape case, is screening through the call data records (CDR) of the accused and the woman to ascertain how long they knew each other. 'The accused is giving contradictory statements. Sometimes he says he met the woman on a dating app, sometimes he claims to know her through a counselling app. This needs to be investigated. We are also trying to know whether the accused used sleeping pills to spike the food and water offered to the woman,' a senior police officer involved in the probe said. In her complaint to the police on July 12, the woman, who claimed to be a psychologist, had alleged that Toppaunwar called her to the Joka campus a day ago for a 'counselling session', and the two had met on social media. The woman alleged that she lost consciousness and was raped after she consumed spiked food and water offered by the accused on a hostel room.
New Indian Express
2 days ago
- New Indian Express
IIM-Calcutta rape case: Victim fails to appear to record statement, police unable to contact her
KOLKATA: The victim in the alleged rape incident on the campus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) in Joka did not appear at the Alipore court in Kolkata to record her statement. She had also failed to appear in court on Monday. Police have been trying to contact her since then for investigation purposes, however, according to Kolkata Police sources, they have been unable to reach her, as her phone has been switched off. On the other hand, the accused underwent a 'medico-legal' (physical examination to identify criminal acts) test on Monday, police sources said. Police said that the investigation process is progressing in accordance with the SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures). In the meantime, the investigators have spoken to the residents of the IIM-C hostel at Joka and the 'log book' of the hostel has been confiscated.
Indian Express
3 days ago
- Indian Express
IIM Calcutta rape case: Woman fails to record statement, cops in a huddle over framing sequence of events
The Kolkata Police, which is probing the alleged rape of a young woman at the Joka campus hostel of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C), is finding it difficult to move ahead with the investigation due to 'non-cooperation' of the woman and her family, sources said. The woman, who is in her early 20s and claimed to be a psychologist, has not given consent to the medico-legal examination and failed to appear before a magistrate on Monday to record her statement. Police have arrested a second-year student of the IIM-C, Parmanand Toppaunwar, 26, for rape. In her complaint to the police on July 12, the woman had alleged that Toppaunwar called her to the Joka campus hostel on Friday (July 11) for a 'counselling session' since she was a psychologist and the two had met on social media. She alleged that she was raped after she lost consciousness on consuming the food and water offered by the accused. 'The SIT is looking at all the angles in the case. We approached the woman as we wanted to know from where she had completed her course as a clinical psychologist and whether she had a valid licence to give counselling sessions. But the woman could not be reached,' said a senior police officer involved in the probe. On Sunday, Kolkata Police formed a nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by an ACP-rank officer and comprising three women officers, to probe the rape case. 'The main priority of the SIT now is to speak to the woman to confirm the exact sequence of events. The timeline remains unclear, and the conflicting statement made by the woman's father has raised some questions,' another police officer said. The woman's father had earlier claimed that no such incident had taken place. He claimed that he received a call at 9.34 pm on Friday (July 11, the day the alleged rape took place), informing him that his daughter had fallen out of an auto and lost consciousness. He claimed he was told that she was admitted to a hospital by the police. According to police, the accused, during questioning, claimed that he came in contact with the woman a few months ago through a counselling app. Toppaunwar told police that he had informed the hostel warden that a counsellor would be visiting him, and as a result, he did not make an entry of the woman's visit in the hostel register. Sources in the police said that the IIM-C informed them that Toppaunwar had mailed the institute about a friend visiting him on the campus on July 11. It is to be noted that the woman in complaint to the police had stated that when she arrived on the campus, Toppaunwar met her at the gate and asked her not to enter her name in the visitor's register, which raised some doubts. Sources said the police are also looking into the tower location of the cellphone of the woman, as she has claimed that she was in the IIM-C hostel till 8.30 pm when she gained consciousness. 'But the institute has told us that the woman left the campus in the afternoon. So, we need to verify it,' said a police officer, adding that the forensic experts are examining the mobile phones of both the accused and the woman. Meanwhile, the lawyer of the accused, Subrata Sardar, said they have sought a report on the statement made by the woman's father. Referring to the woman not appearing before a magistrate on Monday to record her statement, Sardar said: 'We have moved the court for a report regarding the video statement given by the father that the incident did not happen. Also, we have asked for a report on why the woman's statement has not been recorded yet.' When asked about the defence counsel's move, Chief Public Prosecutor Sourin Ghosal told The Indian Express: 'The accused has not got any say regarding the mode and method of investigation as per the Supreme Court's guideline.'
Time of India
3 days ago
- Time of India
IIM Calcutta rape survivor skips court appearance for statement
Kolkata: A young woman, who was allegedly raped at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta boys' hostel on Friday, reportedly did not appear to record her confidential statement on Monday in front of the judicial magistrate. Police sources said that the victim and her family members are allegedly not cooperating with the investigation. The victim did not undergo a medical test earlier on Saturday, police sources said. A nine-member SIT has been formed by Kolkata Police on Sunday to probe the alleged rape inside IIM-Calcutta campus and CCTV footages have been sought from the institute, people in the know said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Play this game for 1 minute and see why everyone is addicted. Undo A young woman has allegedly been raped in the students' hostel of premier management Institute, Indian Institute of Management –Calcutta (IIM-C) at Joka in Kolkata on Friday evening. In a twist of events, the rape victim's father told media persons on Saturday that his daughter was not tortured or assaulted, instead she fell from a vehicle. The victim's father had also said that someone forcibly asked her daughter to write the police complaint. It has been reportedly learnt that the accused Parmanand Jain has "reportedly" spiked the soft drinks and drinking water which was given to the 'victim'. 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 yesterday afternoon and remanded to police custody. Live Events
Hindustan Times
4 days ago
- Hindustan Times
Police form SIT, women's commissions register cases in alleged rape at IIM-C
Kolkata: The Kolkata police on Sunday formed a nine-member special investigation team (SIT) while the West Bengal Commission for Women and its national counterpart registered suo-motu cases in the alleged rape of a 24-year-old woman on Friday by a second-year Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) student inside his hostel room on the campus, officials said. Police personnel deployed at IIM Calcutta after a student was allegedly raped inside the boys' hostel of the institute, in Kolkata, on Sunday. (PTI) The accused, Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar, 26, a resident of Karnataka, was arrested in the early hours of Saturday on the basis of a complaint lodged by the survivor at the Haridevpur police station in Kolkata. 'The SIT will probe all angles in the case. Phone calls made by the accused and the survivor and the chat history on their phone apps are being studied. Footages from all security cameras inside and outside the campus have been collected,' a police officer said requesting anonymity. 'The accused may be asked to take a medico-legal test. The clothes he wore during the alleged crime have been seized,' he added. Although the woman — a psychological counsellor who had met the IIM-C student on social media — had alleged in her complaint that she was drugged and sexually assaulted, her father told the media on Saturday that nothing happened to her. He claimed that she was 'asked to file the complaint' but did not elaborate. He did not face the media on Sunday. 'The woman refused to undergo a medical test till Sunday evening. This has to be done within 48 hours in a rape case,' said a second police officer. 'Security personnel on the IIM-C campus are being questioned to find out how a woman could reach a student's hostel room without signing the register for guests. We are also checking whether the student called the woman for psychological counselling as was claimed,' said the second police officer. 'Toppannawar's parents are also being questioned,' he added. State women's commission chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay said : 'We have taken suo motu cognizance because this is a serious offence. We are in touch with the Haridevpur police station.' With IIMC-C being a central institute, the issue triggered a political row with Archana Majumdar, a West Bengal-based member of the National Commission for Women, also taking cognizance of the case. 'The victim did not say in her complaint that she was raped. She said she was sexually assaulted. Her father also told the media that nothing happened to her. I tried to contact her father but his phone is switched off,' Majumdar said. The Bharatiya Janata Party targeted the ruling Trinamool Congress citing some recent incidents of rape and molestation in the state. 'Statements made by the woman's father and the circumstances indicate that there was a conspiracy,' former BJP state president Rahul Sinha said. TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, 'We fail to understand what politics has got to do with the alleged rape of a woman inside a central institute's campus by a student.' According to the complaint, the survivor started to feel dizzy after having pizza and water that the accused had offered her for lunch in his hostel room. Toppannawar was charged under Sections 64 (rape), 123 (administering drug to commit offence), 127(2) (wrongful confinement), 115(12) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 76 (forcefully disrobing a woman) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Kolkata's Alipore court remanded him in police custody till July 19 on Saturday.
