Kolkata B-school rape probe hits wall as ‘survivor’, her advocate father won’t speak | India News

Kolkata B-school rape probe hits wall as ‘survivor’, her advocate father won’t speak

KOLKATA: A forensic staff collected Sunday gentle drink and water bottles, two forms of hair strands, and different samples from a sealed hostel room in a premier Kolkata administration institute, the place a 24-year-old psychologist accused a pupil of drugging and raping her throughout a supposed counselling session. However, the probe hit a wall as the “woman and her family refused to cooperate”.“In an ideal situation, we would have spoken to the survivor at length, got her medico-legal test done, and collected her clothes and phone, which are all crucial evidence in such a probe. However, we haven’t been able to do this as the survivor is not cooperating. We called her to the police station, but she has not come,” stated a senior officer.The girl alleged she was supplied pizza and a drink after being invited to the male pupil’s hostel room Friday. But the case took a flip inside 12 hours of the criticism when her father publicly denied any crime had occurred and accused police of coercion. The household’s two-storey home in a semi-urban village, 12km from the B-school, could maintain solutions to the silence. The village is a curious mixture of modernity and custom – paved roads, gaming computer systems, and girls operating stitching faculties – but nonetheless bends underneath the burden of conservatism. Cellphones buzz in each family. As does silence when questions of justice come up.Attempts to achieve the survivor’s household have been thwarted by 4 youths on bikes. “They have nothing to say. They are not at home,” one in every of them stated curtly. The girl’s advocate father declined to speak. Kamal Mia, a 60-year-old village elder who prays thrice every day on the native mosque, stated: “My grandson is studying medicine. There’s a big difference between new and old generations.” A nine-member SIT started work amid what officers known as “zero help” from the complainant and her household. Police collected logbooks from the principle gate and hostel entrance, together with CCTV footage from a number of campus zones, in an try and construct a timeline and confirm claims.The household’s silence is not restricted to police. Both state and nationwide girls’s panels have launched suo motu probes, however didn’t speak with the girl or her household.