Overview

• Investigators registered an FIR and are questioning several people, including the male companion, while stating no arrests have been announced.
• The second-year MBBS student from Jaleswar, Odisha, is hospitalized and has given a statement to police, who plan forensic collection at the scene.
• Police and family accounts say she left campus for food, was separated from her friend, dragged to a wooded area, assaulted, and had her phone taken with money later demanded for its return.
• The National Commission for Women has dispatched a team to meet the student and her family and to speak with local authorities.
• West Bengal’s health department has asked the college for a report as students protest alleged security lapses and political groups demand accountability.