By News18
Hours after it was known that Kolkata rape accused Manojit Mishra had earlier attempted to murder a student and had thrashed a cop, several other cases that were earlier registered against him have come to the fore.
The list of other cases against the prime accused in the Kolkata law college gangrape case suggests that he has been a repeat offender.
In 2017, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Mishra was assaulting and threatening a person.
In July 2019, a complaint was lodged against him at the Gariahat Police Station in Kolkata, accusing him of tearing off a female student’s clothes at the South Kolkata Law College.
On December 31, 2019, Mishra, after attending a party at a friend’s house, had allegedly stolen a music system and some expensive items. A complaint in this regard against him was lodged at the Haridevpur Police Station.
In 2022, a woman from Kolkata’s Swinhoe Street had filed a molestation complaint against Manojit Mishra at the Kasba Police Station.
In 2024, he was accused of assaulting a college guard and was also accused of vandalism on the college campus, according to a police complaint.
In 2025, another complaint against him mentioned that he had thrashed a cop.
DNA SAMPLES OF ACCUSED COLLECTED
In the latest, the DNA samples of the three accused in the Kolkata law college gang rape case were collected on Monday as a part of the investigation of the crime.
The police also suspect that the torture of the 24-year-old woman was pre-planned.
The three arrested accused – alumnus Monojit Mishra and current students Pratim Mukherjee and Zaid Ahmed – were taken to the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, where their body fluid, urine and hair samples were collected for forensic examination.
The first-year student of South Calcutta Law College in the city’s Kasba area was gang-raped allegedly by the three on the evening of June 25.
A team of doctors extracted the samples from the accused, and the process lasted for nearly eight hours and were sent to the forensic examination.
Sleuths of a nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) have prepared a list of over 25 people, mostly students of South Calcutta Law College, who were present at the institution on June 25.
Meanwhile, the state education department on Monday recommended the suspension of Mishra from the position he was holding as a contractual employee of the South Calcutta Law College.
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