West Bengal Police on Tuesday evening arrested a friend of the medical student of a private college, who was allegedly gangraped in West Bengal’s Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to six, a senior police officer told PTI .

The accused had accompanied the victim when she had gone outside the campus of the medical college to fetch food on the evening of the alleged crime, the official said. Also Read | Durgapur gangrape case: Five accused taken to scene of crime for reconstruction

Earlier, five people were apprehended in connection with the case.

The second-year student hailing from Odisha's Jaleswar was allegedly raped outside the campus of the private medical college in Durgapur on October 10.

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