Investigators said Mishra’s co-accused, students Pramit Mukherjee, 20, and Zaib Ahmed, 19, reportedly told them that the attack on the woman at South Calcutta Law College on June 25 had been planned beforehand
Ashok Kumar Deb, the governing body president and Trinamool Congress MLA from Budge Budge, avoided questions about how Mishra was appointed despite being arrested three times — twice by the Kalighat police and once by the Kasba police