NEW DELHI: A medical college student from Odisha was allegedly raped by unidentified men in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, police said on Saturday.The incident took place on Friday night outside a private medical college campus in Durgapur, when the second-year student went out for dinner with a friend, according to her family.

The medical student, hailing from Jaleswar in Odisha, is currently receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, a police officer said.“On the basis of a complaint lodged by the family members of the medical student, we have started an investigation,” he said.Talking to reporters, the parents of the student said they reached Durgapur this morning after getting a call from friends of their daughter.The mother alleged that her daughter was “gang-raped” around 10 pm on Friday when she went out of the college campus with one of her friends for dinner.“We got a call from her friends, and heard of the incident. We came here this morning and lodged a complaint with the police. I have heard that the college performed well academically, and this is why we sent our daughter to study medicine here,” the student’s father said. (The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)(With agencies inputs)