• Old Park Street rape link in newest outrage
    Times of India | 28 October 2025
  • Kolkata: Naser Khan, who, along with his friends, was convicted of the gang rape of a woman in a moving car in 2012 and was released from jail in 2020, more than a year before the end of his 10-year term because of "good behaviour", was accused of molestation, assault, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation following a bar brawl in a Bypass nightclub on Sunday.

    Khan, however, claimed he was innocent. "I was not at the club, I was at home when the incident happened with my nephew. I am a changed man. I look after my family business of manufacturing industrial thermometers and stay away from any sort of trouble. Ever since I have come out of jail, there hasn't been a single GD against me. This is a fabricated complaint to malign my image, just because I have a past," Khan told TOI.

    But his nephew Junaid, who too was named in the FIR, told TOI Naser was at the club even before him.

    "When the brawl broke out between the family and me, Naser came to mediate. Naser's bodyguard pushed a member of the complainant's family," he said.

    On the night between Feb 5 and 6, 2012, a 37-year-old mother of two, who went to a nightclub on Park Street, was raped inside a vehicle. Naser, along with co-accused Sumit Bajaj and Ruman Khan, was arrested on Feb 18. His brother, Kader Khan, named as the prime accused, and another accused, Ali, were arrested four years later. At Dum Dum and Presidency correctional homes, Naser was assigned to the welfare section, where he helped other inmates, drafted pleas for prisoners who lacked legal representation.

    "I'm ready to prove my innocence. I'm not fleeing. Police can check CCTV footage and question me. I am not going back to the world of crime," he said.
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