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Kolkata IIM Rape Case: Days after Kolkata rocked over the law student gangrape case, another such case has been reported in the capital city of West Bengal, in which a woman claimed that she was raped by a student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta on the institute's campus.

Police said a woman has accused a student of the IIM of raping her on the institute's campus. The accused student was arrested, following a complaint filed by the woman at the Haridevpur police station on Friday evening.

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"Late last evening, a woman reported at Haridevpur Police Station that she was raped by a student inside the IIM Calcutta campus. Based on her complaint, a case has been registered, and the accused has been arrested," they stated. An investigation is currently underway on the matter, officials said.

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The development comes just a few days after a law student was gangraped by a an alumnus and temporary staffer of the college, triggering a massive political outrage because the accused had a link with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).

Judicial Custody For Kolkata Law College Gangrape Accused

On July 8, Kolkata court remanded three persons, accused in the gangrape of a student in the law college to judicial custody till July 22, following the prosecutors demanded that prime accused Monojit Mishra and two current students Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukherjee, be remanded to judicial custody.

The Alipore court, after hearing all the parties, granted the prayer. A security guard of the college, Pinaki Banerjee, who was also arrested in connection with the case, was also forwarded to judicial custody till July 22.

It is alleged that the first-year student of South Calcutta Law College was raped inside the premises of the institute by Mishra, assisted by Ahmed and Mukherjee, on the evening of June 25. The state's lawyer submitted before the court that it has worked on electronic evidence with regard to the crime during their police remand.

The trio was arrested on June 26, and produced before the court the following day, which initially remanded them to four-day police custody. Upon production at the Alipore Court on July 1, the court extended their police remand till July 8. The 24-year-old student had alleged that she was gangraped in the college premises on the evening of June 25. 

(With PTI inputs)