Overview
- The Alipore Court released the second-year student on a ₹50,000 bond and ordered him to surrender his passport and seek permission before leaving West Bengal.
- The complainant skipped three court dates for statement recording and remains unreachable with her mobile phone switched off.
- A nine-member Special Investigation Team has obtained July 11 CCTV footage from across the IIM Calcutta campus to verify the victim’s movements amid discrepancies in her account.
- Defense counsel highlighted the victim’s non-cooperation and conflicting testimony from her father as grounds for granting interim bail.
- Investigators continue forensic analysis and review digital communications under POCSO and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions to build evidence.