Police found the girls allegations were only half-true After four days of high drama,the Detective Department of Kolkata police arrested the driver of the shuttle car in which Chandrima Gupta,a law student,was allegedly robbed on November 13. Mohammad Munir alias Bappa was arrested from Santoshpur on Friday. On November 9,Gupta filed a complaint with the Lake police station alleging she had been attacked and robbed inside a car,which had fled away with her co-passenger,also a girl. But after the driver was picked up by the police,it came to light that only a portion of Guptas allegations were true as she had made the story of the co-passenger to escape from her mothers wrath since she was asked not to board a shuttle car alone. Later,Gupta admitted that the story of the second girl was a figment of imagination. The incident has,however,prompted the city police to begin a crackdown against tinted windows on cars. According to a senior officer,the number and the description of the car provided by Gupta helped the police to crack the case. Moreover,the Guptas description of the accused driver helped the police zero in on the person. For two days,the police couldnt find any car bearing the last four digits 1456. After going through the records,the police zeroed in on a car with the number WB 06B 1459 a blue Maruti A-star owned by a lawyer. Investigation revealed that the driver had dropped the lawyer to Bikash Bhawan on Monday and was returning home when he spotted Gupta near Salt Lakes AMRI hospital around 10. 45 am. The driver claimed that he saw Gupta talking on two cellphones. He claims that he was in need of money and seeing the two cellphones he felt tempted, said an officer of the detective department. During interrogation,Munir admitted that he had threatened the girl and asked her to give him the rings and cellphones.
