Police found the girl’s 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 Gupta’s allegations were true as she had made the story of the co-passenger to escape from her mother’s 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 Gupta’s description of the accused driver helped the police zero in on the person. For two days, the police couldn’t 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.

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