howrah police arrested the prime accused in the botanic garden rape case on tuesday cops suspect accused monirul purakait 24 of south 24 parganas kultali has links with trafficking and had plans to sell the 16yearold survivor to a brothel confessing that he had raped the girl purakait said he had established contact with her over mobile after sending her a missed call a month ago monirul a tailor by profession was picked up from kultali police said that during interrogation purakait claimed he got scared after sundays rape as the girl was bleeding profusely he also claimed that after keeping the unconscious girl lying amid shrubs near the prain lake inside botanic garden he went out to call a taxi on which he had planned to take the girl to a hospital after he returned to the botanic garden gate on a taxi he heard security guards and others discussing aloud that a girl was found lying unconscious inside sensing trouble he fled the place he told cops monirul also admitted that he took the girls mobile with him and had plans to steal her gold ornaments worth about rs 50000 that she was carrying in her bag but he reportedly did not come out with her bag as carrying a ladys bag would have raised peoples suspicion the girl and her parents are meanwhile confused over contradictory versions of the police and doctors including howrahs chief medical officer of health cmoh i want to know what exactly had happened with my daughter police insist that she was raped by the accused who has been arrested but doctors examining her told us that she was gangraped the confusion has left her even more traumatized said the girls father we want to take our daughter back home we are constantly under cops watch they are following us wherever we are going he added howrah cmoh bhabani das said all necessary tests are being done police sources said monirul is married and used to frequent brothels regularly