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Park Street gangrape case: Police re-enact entire crime, accused taken to spots named in FIR

Main accused Kader Khan was nabbed from New Delhi on Friday.

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The entire incident of gangrape in Park Street was enacted in the wee hours today by Kolkata Police sleuths who took prime accused Kader Khan and his accomplice Ali Khan to the spots named in the FIR by the victim to aid probe into the case.

"It (the enactment) started from the spot where the five accused picked up the victim on the night on February 6, 2012. We took them to all those places named by the victim in her FIR filed a couple of days after the incident," a senior officer of Kolkata Police detective department said on condition of anonymity. The duo, he said, were also taken to the spot near Rabindra Sadan named in the victim's FIR as the place where she was thrown out of the car after being gangraped.

The victim, a mother of two, was allegedly gangraped by the five men who had offered to drop her home from a night club in city's downtown Park Street area. It was learnt that Kader and Ali had told the sleuths during their grilling that they had hit the victim but had not raped her. Police were also looking for those who helped Kader to escape from the city a few days after the incident, the officer said.

A special team of Kolkata Police arrested Kader and Ali from their hideout in a paying guest accommodation with their nephew in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida in the early hours of Friday after a search of over four years. A few days after the incident the victim had filed her complaint but West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had them termed it as "fabricated" triggering a controversy. Damayanti Sen, the then Kolkata Police Joint Commissioner (crime), had pursued the case and identified the five accused.

She was later shunted out from her post. Three of the five accused were arrested, while the two including prime accused Kader Khan absconded. Nine months after the victim died of meningitis in March 2015, the city sessions court had convicted the accused Ruman Khan, Naser Khan and Sumit Bajaj and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment. 

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