Kolkata, Oct 13 (PTI) Two more persons were apprehended on Monday in connection with the alleged gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in West Bengal's Durgapur, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five, police said.

The incident has triggered a political row in poll-bound West Bengal, with Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari alleging attempts to "destroy evidence" related to the crime.

Adhikari also claimed that arrests were nothing more than "eyewash".

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate, Abhisekh Gupta, told PTI, "Two more arrests have been made. With these, all five accused have been taken into custody on the basis of the complaint filed by the survivor." The second-year student of a private medical college in Durga

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