Overview

• Officers reconstructed the crime scene on Tuesday with the five arrested suspects and the survivor’s friend, videographing the exercise to compare with statements.
• West Bengal Police arrested the survivor’s classmate on Tuesday evening, raising total arrests to six after five FIR-named suspects were earlier taken into custody.
• Asansol–Durgapur Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary said technical evidence and the victim’s account indicate one person committed the physical sexual assault, with others’ roles still under investigation.
• Investigators seized clothing and mobile phones from suspects for forensic tests, conducted medico-legal examinations, recovered the survivor’s phone, and plan DNA profiling pending lab reports.
• The survivor is reported stable and gave a magistrate-recorded statement, while the Calcutta High Court ordered controlled access to the hospital and separately directed police to permit a BJP demonstration at a designated site.