Bengali actor in rape controversy

Nusrat Jahan, a prominent face in the Bengali film industry, has two releases this festive season.

She, however, has been more in the news over the last few days due to her ties with Kader Khan, the prime accused in the 2012 Park Street gang-rape case.

Since Kader and co-accused Ali Khan were apprehended from an apartment in Ghaziabad on September 29, the police have been interrogating them and are on the lookout for anybody who provided them financial support and shelter.

While these people could be charged as an accessory to a crime and for harbouring an absconding criminal, the Bengali actor’s name has featured nowhere in the charge sheet. The police have not even questioned her regarding the matter even though Nusrat had admitted to having known him closely. Kader’s family members as well as a number of people from the city’s party circuit, who knew both Kader and Nusrat, maintained that the two were engaged and were planning to get married sometime in 2012.

Kader and his four accomplices got embroiled in the gang-rape case of February 5, 2012, causing him to abscond.

In May 2012, reports surfaced that Nusrat had spent time with Kader at a hotel in Mumbai, when he was on the run. Bills available from a luxury hotel in Mumbai revealed that Kader was with Nusrat on February 18, the day three of his accomplices — Naser Khan, Ruman Khan and Sumit Bajaj — were arrested in Kolkata. While Nusrat had admitted to having been in Mumbai around the same time, she denied having stayed with him.