Man ‘assaults’ ASHA worker in Gujarat, booked under new Epidemic Diseases Ordinance

Mehsana Superintendent of Police Manish Singh said that the accused stopped her and asked her if why she did not give him any medicine. She asked him if he had any illness. During this time, the accused indulged in a scuffle with her and tried to forcefully push her in his car, the SP said.

The accused also allegedly used casteist abuses against the worker. He is also booked under the provisions of the Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocity) Act.

The case has been registered by Santhal police station in the district under section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and other relevant sections of the IPC, Disaster Management Act and recently amended Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.