Overview

• Police named the arrested suspects as Apu Bauri, Sheikh Firdous and Sheikh Riyazuddin, and a Durgapur court remanded them to 10 days of police custody.
• Two other suspects remain at large while investigators detain and question the male classmate who accompanied the student, review CCTV, and conduct forensic checks.
• The survivor, a second-year MBBS student from Odisha, is receiving treatment in Durgapur and has recorded her statement; her family’s FIR has been registered.
• An NCW team met the student and family at the hospital and sought an action-taken report from West Bengal authorities within five days.
• Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the case shocking and pledged strict action, as opposition parties and student groups held protests and criticized her remark that girls should not go out at night.