A 23-year-old classmate of the medical student who alleged gangrape in a forested area near her college campus in Durgapur, West Bengal, was arrested on Tuesday evening. The arrest came shortly after Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary stated that gangrape had been ruled out and confirmed the classmate was not beyond suspicion.

The survivor’s classmate, a resident of Malda district in Bengal, had been detained on 11 October, as he had accompanied her for dinner on the evening the incident occurred. Earlier, five local villagers had been arrested in connection with the case. However, during his first press conference on the matter, held just an hour before the sixth arrest, Commissioner Choudhary clarified that the investigation indicated the involvement of only one

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