“Scream and I will call...”: Gangrape survivor from Odisha recalls horrific night

A 23-year-old medical student from Odisha’s Jaleswar, studying in a private college in West Bengal’s Durgapur, recounted the horrifying detail of how she was brutally gangraped near her college campus on Friday night. What began as a simple dinner outing with a friend turned into a nightmare when a group of men intercepted them near a deserted forest patch.

Trapped and Terrorised in the Dark

In her statement to the doctor, accessed by India Today, the survivor described how the men abandoned their vehicle and chased her into the forest. “We noticed that they were coming towards us, so we ran. They caught me, dragged me into the forest, took my phone, and told me to call my friend. When he didn’t come, they forced me to lie down,” she said.
Her voice trembled as she recalled the horror, “When I screamed, they said if I made noise, they would call more men, and they would do it too.”

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Accused Under Custody, Reconstruction Underway

Police have arrested five men so far, including a former college security guard, a hospital staffer, a civic worker, and an unemployed man. The accused will be taken to the crime scene near Paranaganj Kali Bari cremation ground for reconstruction to verify the survivor’s statement and trace the sequence of events.

Rage and Reckoning

The incident has sparked national outrage. The survivor’s father compared the situation in Bengal to “Aurangzeb’s rule”, while Governor C.V. Ananda Bose called for a “second renaissance” to restore women’s safety and dignity in the state.