Kolkata Student gang-raped: This horrific incident comes 10 months after the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the city's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The alleged gang rape of a law student from West Bengal's Kolkata - months after the horrific RG Kar rape-murder case - has triggered a fresh and (furious) showdown between the ruling.

Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Assembly election next year.

Three men - including Manojit Mishra, a 31-year-old former student of the South Calcutta Law College -in Kolkata's Kasba area - have been arrested and charged with rape. 

The other two men - Zaib Ahmed and Pramit Mukhopadhyay, according to news agency ANI - are believed to be current students.

According to the police, mobile phones with videos of the rape - videos used to threaten and bully the 24-year-old survivor into staying silent about the attack - were seized from the accused.

A practicing lawyer, Mishra is the primary accused and the BJP - on the warpath with one eye firmly on the forthcoming election - has shared photographs showing him with senior leaders from. 

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool, including her nephew and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee.

Source: Ndtv