Karnataka: Case against BJP MP Ananth Kumar Hegde for assaulting doctors

BJP MP Ananth Kumar Hegde

A suo motu case has been registered against BJP MP from Karnataka Ananth Kumar Hegde on charges of assaulting doctors on January 2, according to ANI.  The five-time Uttara Kannada MP had allegedly assaulted doctors and hospital staff of a private hospital in Sirsi town as he was unhappy that they weren’t attending to his mother properly. CCTV footage of him assaulting the doctors was aired by TV channels.

The footage had shown Hegde holding a doctor by his neck and pushing him in the corridors of the hospital. The MP then punched him in the face as a nurse attempts to intervene. While the footage showed the MP attacking one doctor, there were reports that he had assaulted three doctors and a hospital staff.

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Hegde has earlier been booked for “hurting religious sentiments” by his alleged remarks against Muslims. He had allegedly equated Islam to a “ticking time bomb of terror” that needed to be eradicated.