The corridors of the Calcutta High Court braced for a chilling case that has shaken a law college and sparked demands for an impartial investigation. The alleged gang rape of a first-year law student inside South Calcutta Law College is now poised to be taken up by the judiciary—once petitions formally land on the court’s docket.
On Monday, a Division Bench led by Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De responded to urgent mentions from multiple advocates, who pressed for an independent probe into the June 25 incident. The Court instructed them to follow due procedure: file their pleas and notify the respondents.
The case, unsettling in both its setting and brutality, centers around a young student who was reportedly assaulted inside the college’s security guard room—an area presumed to offer protection, not peril. Her medical report, issued by a government hospital, is said to support her account, though officials remain tight-lipped on the specifics.
As the legal system prepares to engage, the college remains under a cloud, and the city watches—waiting not just for answers, but for accountability.
