Engineering pupil in Kolkata arrested for allegedly raping fellow pupil

The Kolkata Police on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) arrested Rajdeep Roy, a pupil of a personal engineering faculty in Kolkata, for allegedly raping his classmate in her rented condominium in East Kolkata’s Anandapur space.

Roy, who’s in his 20s and was recognized to the survivor, has been remanded to police custody by a metropolis courtroom until October 22.

A high-ranking official of the Kolkata Police advised The Hindu that the survivor, aged 20 and in second yr on the similar engineering faculty, had lodged the police criticism on October 8 on the Anandapur Police Station. She initially hails from the North 24 Parganas district and was staying in a rented condominium to attend faculty in Kolkata.

According to her criticism, the accused had come to her condominium on September 26 at round 7 within the night and had allegedly pressured her to eat alcoholic drinks. When she fell unconscious, Roy allegedly sexually assaulted the complainant. 

According to police officers, Roy hails from Kolkata’s Santoshpur space and was hiding in his relative’s home in Sarsuna from the place he was arrested on Tuesday. 

“We have additionally made a number of seizures from the place of incidence. We are inspecting them because the investigation continues,” the Kolkata Police officer mentioned.

The arrest of the accused on Tuesday coincided with the arrest of the sixth accused in connection to the alleged rape of a medical faculty pupil in a forested space close to the faculty campus in Durgapur on October 10. 

These developments are available in a collection of rapes the place the victims had been college students in several instructional establishments within the State, together with the postgraduate trainee physician who was raped and killed on the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital final yr, the legislation pupil who was raped within the premises of the South Calcutta Law College, and the medical faculty pupil was raped in a forest space close to her faculty at Durgapur just lately.

It can be to be famous that in keeping with the Crime in India report of 2023 by the National Crime Records Bureau, 80% to 100% of rape victims in India are recognized to the offenders. In 2023, 82.6% of rape victims in West Bengal had been recognized to the accused.