Howrah (WB), December 29

A local court today remanded the Army jawan arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a teenager inside a compartment of the Howrah-Amritsar Express in police custody for four days.Monjiris Tripathy, who was arrested by GRP from Madhupur railway station on Monday, was produced before the Howrah chief judicial magistrate’s court during the day and sent to police custody.Tripathy, who is posted in Kolkata at the Eastern Command headquarters, had allegedly compelled the 14-year-old, who had boarded the compartment at Howrah station, to consume alcohol. She was then allegedly raped by two other Army men inside the train. The two are absconding.The Army is cooperating with the police in tracing the absconding jawans. “The police are investigating and we are cooperating with them. We are sharing the information we have so that the accused can be caught and action taken against them as per the law of the land,” an Army source said. — PTI