Kolkata Police revealed that Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gangrape of a 24-year-old law student from South Calcutta Law College, has a history of multiple criminal charges. Mishra has reportedly been chargesheeted in multiple cases, including those related to harassment of women, assault, vandalism, and theft.
According to a senior officer, “Monojit Mishra is a history-sheeter with several cases and chargesheets against him within the Kolkata Police jurisdiction.”
Police confirmed that Mishra has multiple cases registered at Kalighat, Kasba, Alipore, Haridevpur, and Tollygunge police stations.
Mishra, along with two others, has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a first-year law student on the South Calcutta Law College campus on June 25. The assault reportedly took place inside a security guard’s room between 7:30 and 10:50 pm.
Mishra had allegedly pressured the student to marry him, and when she refused, he threatened to kill her boyfriend and have her parents falsely implicated and arrested. Mishra is a practising criminal lawyer at the Alipore court and identifies himself on social media as a former leader of the Trinamool Congress’s student wing at the law college.
Although he graduated from the college four years ago, he had reportedly remained informally involved with the institution until recently. Following the incident, the Trinamool Congress has distanced itself from him.
According to police records, Monojit Mishra was chargesheeted in 2019 for allegedly tearing a woman’s clothes inside South Calcutta Law College.
In the same year, Mishra was also accused of theft, including stealing a gold chain, perfume, a music system, and spectacles from a friend’s home in Haridevpur on New Year’s Eve. An FIR was filed in early January 2020, and he was later chargesheeted in the case.
In another case, Mishra allegedly harassed a woman in Kasba in March 2022. More recently, in May 2024, the law college administration lodged a complaint against him for assaulting a security guard and vandalising campus property. In 2017, Mishra was accused of damaging the principal’s office, though no police case was filed in connection with the incident.
Four Arrested in Kolkata Gangrape Case
Kolkata Police have set up a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged gangrape case. The team will be led by an officer of the rank of Assistant Commissioner. “An SIT has been constituted to investigate the incident and will begin its probe immediately,” a senior police officer said.
Police have arrested four individuals in connection with the case: Monojit Mishra, the main accused; Zaib Ahmed (19) and Pramit Mukherjee (20), both students at the law college; and Pinaki Banerjee, the college’s security guard.
A medical examination conducted at a state-run hospital has corroborated the survivor’s account. “There is evidence of forceful penetration, along with bite marks and nail scratches on her body,” a senior police officer said.
Investigators also recovered an incriminating video clip, approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds long, from one of the accused’s mobile phones. “The footage supports the victim’s statement made in her complaint,” the officer added.
In her complaint, the survivor stated that after rejecting Mishra’s marriage proposal, she was confined, threatened, and assaulted despite her resistance.
