Bhubaneswar: Durgapur police on Sunday arrested another accused in connection with the alleged gang-rape of an Odia student of a private medical college in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, taking the total number of arrests to four.

The accused have been identified as Apo Bauri, Firdos Sheikh, Nasiruddin, and Rezaul Sheikh. The SDJM, Durgapur, remanded all four to 10 days’ police custody.

Earlier, three persons were nabbed within 36 hours of the incident. The medical student, hailing from Odisha, was allegedly gang-raped outside the college campus in Durgapur on Friday night when she had gone out for dinner with a friend.

Meanwhile, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday spoke to the victim’s father, a resident of Jaleswar in Balasore district, and expressed deep

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