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This is an archive article published on August 20, 2024
Doctor held in UP’s Moradabad for raping nurse at his residence
The incident took place on Saturday night. A ward boy and a nurse were also arrested for allegedly forcibly taking the woman to the doctor’s residence, the police said.
The victim, a Dalit woman, was employed by the hospital 10 months ago. (Representational Image)
A doctor in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad district was arrested for allegedly raping a 20-year-old Dalit nurse who worked at his hospital on Saturday night. Two other hospital employees were also arrested for allegedly forcibly taking the woman to the doctor’s residence, the police said.
The police identified the accused as a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) doctor and said that he had been running a private hospital in Moradabad for the last five years along with his wife who also holds a similar degree.
The victim, a Dalit woman, was employed by the hospital 10 months ago. According to her father, who lodged the First Information Report (FIR) at the jurisdictional police station, she was on night duty and had reached the hospital at 7 pm on Saturday. “Around midnight, a nurse and ward boy told her that the doctor had called her at his residence inside the hospital campus. She refused but they dragged her to the room and bolted the door from outside,” the father told the police.
“After lodging the FIR on Sunday morning, we raided the hospital and arrested the doctor for rape and threatening to kill the victim if she dared to tell anyone about the incident. The ward boy and the nurse have also been arrested for forcibly taking her to the doctor’s room,” Sandeep Kumar Meena, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Moradabad, said.
The doctor was booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and under Section 63 (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and the nurse and the ward boy were booked under Section 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS, Meena added. “Heavy deployment has been made in the victim’s native village in Moradabad district as a precautionary measure,” Meena further said.
On Monday, all three accused were produced before a local court and sent to judicial custody.
“We are checking the veracity of the degree which the accused holds and then we will approach the authority concerned for cancellation of the degree and registration of the doctor. The hospital has already been sealed,” Anuj Singh, District Magistrate, said.
© The Indian Express Pvt Ltd
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