howrah the driver and helper of a pooled car were arrested on thursday for allegedly gangraping a class vi student who was travelling home from school in a desolate lane in howrah around 14km from the citybased on a complaint lodged by the 12yearold girls parents at ajc bose botanical garden police station on wednesday night sagar mondal 33 and his helper debjit raha 28 were picked up from a hideoutthey were charged with gangrape and sections of the pocso act a howrah court later sent them to 14 days judicial custodythe driver had taken a detour deviating from the usual route and parked the car at a desolate lane it was there that he and the helper began tormenting the girl they assaulted her for some time but she was able to free herself and escape she then ran through some alleys to reach her home based on the complaint her parents lodged we arrested the driver and the helper said ghulam sarwar additional commissioner south howrah city policeaccused took detour to blind lanean officer told toi the girl had told them she was the last drop and was alone in the 16seater vehicle when she noticed that the driver had parked in a desolate blind lane around 530pm on wednesday near the haskhali bridge when she asked why they was the car parked there the men allegedly said the car had broken down the next moment they rolled up the windows and pounced on her according to the officer recounting the girls statementaccording to the complaint the duo took turns in assaulting her one of them held her from behind and gagged her the assault continued for some time before the girl managed to push them away open the car lock and jump out she managed to reach home and tell her mother what happened said the officer the girl had told cops the duo had been taking the detour for the last three days on the pretext of bad traffic on andul road all three days the two had made advances after the other students got down the officer reported her as having saidthe fir based on the girls parents complaint was lodged around 10pm on wednesday following which cops took her to howrah district hospitaltoi later contacted the girls school principal who said she had no knowledge of the incident i havent been informed of any such incident class vi students had classes only till 130pm on wednesday following which all of them left the school principal saidthe officers said they would question the girl and the duo about what could have possibly taken them four hours to cover 49km the journey said a cop should have taken an hour in spite of the 69km detour