<p>A woman was gang-raped in a moving car at the city’s eastern fringes on Sunday night and thrown off the vehicle in the early hours on Monday in Kolkata.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incident brought back memories of the much talked-about Park Street rape case in 2012.<br /><br />The recent gang-rape comes within days of Mamata being sworn in as the chief minister for the second term. The young woman, a bar dancer of Nepalese origin, was forced to get into a car at around 10:30 pm on Sunday and was gang-raped in the moving vehicle. She was picked up from Baguihati, when she was set to meet some friends and visit a nightclub at Sector V, the city’s IT hub.<br /><br />While details are still sketchy, the police have launched a manhunt for the four accused. Senior officials said that the girl lived in a working women’s mess at Baguihati, close to the bar she worked in. She was found unconscious on early Monday morning at Baisakhi traffic island in Salt Lake, a township adjacent to Kolkata. Seeing her on the footpath in torn cloths, some morning walkers called the Electronic Complex Women Police Station.<br /><br />Authorities took her to a nearby state-run hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. After recording her statement, the police started the case and lodged a formal complaint against four youth, whose names have not been disclosed. Officials suspect the men were regulars at the bar where the girl in her early-twenties performed. “We’re not yet sure whether she was abducted or she willingly got into the car because she recognised them,” a source said.<br /><br />Officials said the men took turns to rape her as they moved around Salt Lake in the car, before dumping her at dawn. </p>
<p>A woman was gang-raped in a moving car at the city’s eastern fringes on Sunday night and thrown off the vehicle in the early hours on Monday in Kolkata.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The incident brought back memories of the much talked-about Park Street rape case in 2012.<br /><br />The recent gang-rape comes within days of Mamata being sworn in as the chief minister for the second term. The young woman, a bar dancer of Nepalese origin, was forced to get into a car at around 10:30 pm on Sunday and was gang-raped in the moving vehicle. She was picked up from Baguihati, when she was set to meet some friends and visit a nightclub at Sector V, the city’s IT hub.<br /><br />While details are still sketchy, the police have launched a manhunt for the four accused. Senior officials said that the girl lived in a working women’s mess at Baguihati, close to the bar she worked in. She was found unconscious on early Monday morning at Baisakhi traffic island in Salt Lake, a township adjacent to Kolkata. Seeing her on the footpath in torn cloths, some morning walkers called the Electronic Complex Women Police Station.<br /><br />Authorities took her to a nearby state-run hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. After recording her statement, the police started the case and lodged a formal complaint against four youth, whose names have not been disclosed. Officials suspect the men were regulars at the bar where the girl in her early-twenties performed. “We’re not yet sure whether she was abducted or she willingly got into the car because she recognised them,” a source said.<br /><br />Officials said the men took turns to rape her as they moved around Salt Lake in the car, before dumping her at dawn. </p>
