3 min readKolkataUpdated: Jul 31, 2026 01:02 AM IST The Calcutta High Court on Thursday sought a detailed report from the District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Baruipur on the encounter of Prabhash Mondal, one of the accused in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Baruipur earlier this month. While hearing a Public Interest Litigation, the Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee directed the police to place on record a report in the form of an affidavit explaining the circumstances which led to the encounter and the steps taken by the state authorities. The next hearing for the case is on August 18. Senior Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, representing the petitioner submitted, “The police had taken the accused, Mondal, to the crime scene in order to reconstruct the incident after his arrest. The police should have ensured adequate security measures. If the security had been proper, the accused would not have been able to snatch the revolver, as claimed by the police, and this incident would …