After getting specific information that Milan Sarkar, the prime accused in the Rangahat rape case, was in India for three days after committing the crime, the CID probing the case, is planning to issue a 'look out notice', police sources said adding the victim had agreed to give secret statement to the investigators but in Delhi and not in Bengal. Milan, who was a relative of Gopal Sarkar, another accused, who was earlier picked up from Habra in North 24 Parganas for providing shelter to the other culprits, was reportedly in touch with the four Bangladeshis arrested from Punjab sources said.
The Punjab Police had earlier arrested the four men after their faces resembled with the sketches dispatched by the Bengal Police. Sources also said Sarkar was in touch with the four accused for three days after committing the crime in a convent school at Ranaghat in Nadia district some 67 km north of Kolkata.
One accused, Salim Sheikh, had earlier been arrested from Mumbai and his accomplice Gopal Sarkar was picked up from Habra for providing shelter to the gang for a couple of days before they committed the crime. Milan and others were allegedly helped by Gopal to conduct a recce of the school and the neighbouring areas. Some persons in the group also worked as labourers in the school a few days before the March 14 crime took place.
Meanwhile, CID sources said a group of officials were going to Delhi to record secret statement of the victim who is currently in the Capital and unwilling to come back to Bengal for health and security reasons. She had, however, agreed to give her statement before a Delhi court.