The governing body of South Calcutta Law College, where a student was allegedly gang raped, had passed a resolution to renew the appointment of the accused, Monojit 'Mango' Mishra, in August 2024, media reports said.

'Mango' Mishra, who had been working as a temporary employee of the college on contract, has been sacked now.

NDTV has seen a copy of the resolution to renew his contract passed by the college's governing body, whose president is Trinamool Congress MLA Ashok Deb.

Deb instructed the college's vice principal to issue an appointment letter to 'Mango' Mishra, as per the resolution, reports said.

The governing body's register and the attendance log of temporary employees have been seized for the probe in the gangrape case. The governing body register has records of all communications and minutes of meetings.

According to the college vice principal, who is also the governing body's secretary, Monojit Mishra signed up as an ad-hoc staffer as per the Bar Council's rules following the increase in the number of academic subjects. He was paid a stipend of Rs 500.

However, allegations have surfaced that no formal process was followed in appointing him.

The contract of the man, who now faces allegations of gang rape, was renewed within 45 days and not after six months as mandated by rules, from the expiry of the previous contract.

This took place under the supervision of Trinamool Congress MLA  Ashok Deb.

What is the case?

Monojit Mishra, a 31-year-old alumni and TMC functionary who had unrestricted entry into the college campus, is the prime accused in the rape case.

The two other accused have been identified as 19-year-old Zaib Ahmed and 20-year-old Pramit Mukhopadhyay. All three have been arrested.

Monojit Mishra, who has been disowned by the ruling party, is a member of the TMC's student wing, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shared photographs of him with senior members of the ruling party, including MP, national general secretary, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, as well as minister Chandrima Bhattacharya.

In chilling details from the FIR accessed by various media, the survivor said one of the three accused asked her to stay a little longer at around 6:10 pm when others were preparing to leave.

"He called me outside the room (Union room) and told me that from the very first day he likes me. After his girlfriend he is in love with someone and that is me and he gave a proposal for marriage," the victim claimed as quoted by Hindustan Times.

As per the FIR, she had packed her bag and was getting ready to leave when Monojit instructed others to leave the room and lock the door.

"It was within fraction of second…He took me near the washroom and tried to force me with the intention of rousing sex," the FIR said.

The victim claimed she had pleaded with the main accused to leave her, but he didn't let her go.

"I touched his feet, but he did not let me go, but he did not listen," the FIR quoted the victim as reported by the daily.

"He asked the other two to take me inside the guard’s room and make the guard sit outside. They did so," he added.

The victim claimed in the FIR that the two other men stood by and watched.

Monojit allegedly threatened to kill her boyfriend and arrest her parents.

The survivor further said she was shown two videos of her being naked from the time when he raped her and theatened to show it to everyone upon non-cooperation.

She alleged the prime accused tried to hit her with a hockey stick, but left her like a dead body after the forceful penetration in the guard room.

According to the FIR report going viral, during her ordeal she had a panic attack and begged her tormentors to take her to hospital or get her an inhaler. They got her an inhaler from a nearby medical store, the shocking details revealed.

The victim said she left the room at 10:05 pm and told her parents about the incident later that night.

The alleged incident occurred between 7:30 pm and 10:50 pm.

The alleged incident occured less than a year after a junior doctor was brtually raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.