A court in West Bengal’s Durgapur Wednesday sent the arrested male friend of the gang rape victim to seven days police custody.

According to sources, no lawyer appeared for the accused male friend, Wasif Ali, when he was presented in the Durgapur court. As per the Supreme Court rules, a lawyer from the Durgapur Sub-divisional Legal Aid Centre represented him.

Meanwhile, the police have conducted DNA tests on five people who were arrested earlier.

On Tuesday, Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Choudhary informed that only one person was involved in the physical sexual assault.

He also said that the role of the victim’s male friend is also being investigated. Ali was arrested after investigators found inconsistencies in his response during interrogation.

On Tuesday, the po

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