Ex-Student Charged In Campus Rape, Arrested By Fremont Police: Reports

FREMONT, CA — A 20-year-old man charged in the rape of a student at a Minnesota college the man recently attended was arrested last week by Fremont police, according to reports.

Dipak Phayal was charged last month in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with several felony counts of criminal sexual conduct, including penetration with force or coercion, and aiding and abetting, according to the Stearns County Attorney’s Office.

Phayal was arrested Thursday in California on a nationwide warrant, according to the St. Cloud Times, which reported Phayal and an accomplice, Sujan Tamang, came across a drunk student in November, pushed her into her dorm room at St. Cloud State University, restrained her and sexually assaulted her.

DNA samples taken at a hospital, surveillance footage and a public safety officer all linked the pair to the attack, according to KARE 11, which noted one of the men also messaged the victim on Instagram hours after the early morning incident. The victim suffered physical marks from the restraint, the Times reported.

Phayal told investigators he helped the student to her room but did not perform sexual acts with her, according to the Times, but Tamang said Phayal consensually touched her.

Both Phayal and Tamang were enrolled at St. Cloud State in the fall semester but are no longer students at the university, KARE 11 reported. Police are still looking for Tamang and believe he has left Minnesota, according to the station.

Tamang, 19, faces three counts of felony aiding and abetting of criminal sexual conduct, according to the state’s attorney’s office.