CUTTACK: Commissionerate police has arrested all the culprits involved in the recent MMS scandal involving a Plus Two girl student. The main accused Tulu alias Umakanta Pani and Naba alias Gyanaranjan Saha, both autorickshaw drivers, were arrested from a chocolate factory located at Purumal Koil Street at Kanchipuram near Chennai. They had fled the city following the expose of the MMS clip and its circulation earlier this month.
Police has also arrested Siba Gauda, who manages the Sradha Care Mobile shop at Raja Bagicha Labour Colony, where the MMS clip was converted into a video CD along with Raju alias Rajendra Kumar Das who had circulated the video and MMs clips to different people.
The arrest has brought to the fore the sequence of events. Both Tulu and Naba while driving autos were also members of the Nisha Mukti Sangathan organisation at Rajabagicha Labour Colony. They had befriended the girl who belonged to the same locality. On August 16 this year, Tulu took the girl to a pump house at CDA Sector-7 and allegedly raped her. Naba was an accomplice and even participated in the crime. Both threatened the girl of dire consequences and continued to exploit her.
The MMs clip, which brought the crime into public domain, was allegedly shot at a house at Jayashree Cinema hall lane. The house belonged to a fellow auto driver and both knowing where he kept the keys had taken the girl there and recorded the act on a mobile phone. It was Naba Saha who recorded the act.
Both then prepared the video clip at Sradha Care Mobile shop with active assistance of Siba Gauda and circulated it with a deliberate intent to defame the victim girl, DCP AN Sinha told mediapersons here today. Soon after the matter came to light, both Tulu and Naba had absconded and took refuge at the factory with the help of the latter’s brother-in-law Rohit Biswal, who is working as a supervisor at another chocolate factory and resided at OOrapakkam town in Tamil Nadu.