Overview

• Monibur Rahman, 34, was arrested on July 24 by Kolkata Police after allegedly introducing himself as an Indian Army sepoy and drugging a woman in a Park Street hotel
• Park Street police registered a case under Sections 64(1) for rape and 351(2) for criminal intimidation of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita based on the survivor’s complaint
• The victim alleges she was given a spiked drink before being raped and later threatened with release of nude photographs taken without her consent
• Rahman remains in custody until August 4 as investigators seize and forensically analyze electronic devices to support the survivor’s allegations
• The case underscores a wider pattern of authority-based sexual exploitation and intensifies calls for more rigorous investigative and fast-track court procedures