Park Street rape: Prime accused Kader Khan sent to police custody till Oct 14
According to reports, a special team of Kolkata Police on Thursday midnight booked Kader Khan along with his close aid Ali Khan, who is also a key offender in the rape case, from a residential building (F/58) in Greater Noida's Alpha-II Sector area under Kasna Police Station limits in Uttar Pradesh, nearly four years eight months after the crime was committed.
They were taken to Kolkata on Friday morning on a transit remand and produced in the Bankshall Court later.
The court sent Kader and Ali to police custody till Oct 14 for further interrogation.
On the Feb 5-6 night in 2012, Suzette Jordan was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint inside a moving car by some youths who befriended her at a night joint in Kolkata's nightlife hub Park Street.
Creating a major movement in society, Suzette, the mother of two, revealed her identity to the world on June 19, 2013 and marched on the streets of Kolkata to protest against a series of rapes and murders in the state and later became a symbol of anti-rape protest.
The 40-year-old rape-survivor passed away due to meningoencephalitis at a hospital in Kolkata on Mar 13 last year.
On Dec 11 in 2015, a criminal court in Kolkata sentenced three men- Nasir Khan, Ruman Khan and Sumit Bajaj- to ten years in prison after convicting them for raping Suzette, while the main accused, Kader Khan, besides another offender Ali had been absconding since the incident.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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