KOLKATA: Technology that helps decipher grainy CCTV footage better, coupled with limping gait of a suspect, helped police arrest a man who raped a seven-month-old infant in north Kolkata last Friday, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Police Wednesday, arrested suspect Rajib Ghosh, 34, alias Gobra from a resort in Gopiballavpur in Jhargram, where he worked as a cleaner, and booked him under Pocso and BNS. The infant is under treatment and her condition is stable, police said.
Police began scanning CCTV footage around Sovabazar and Burtolla, where the infant was raped. They said footage showed the accused cross the crime scene nine times. “We picked up two spots at both ends and went door to door to establish his identity. We matched the footage, statements of 110 locals, and worked on specific leads,” police said.
“We used ‘Walking Gait’ analysis and tried to compare the walking pattern of the accused with a man caught walking on CCTV on the day of the incident. After noticing the limp, the footage was shared with police stations across Bengal,” the officer said.