AIIMS Doctor Rape Case: Magistrate to decide on sending to sessions court for trial

Meanwhile, Gupta was granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court on February 17.

The sessions judge underlined that the chargesheet was filed without the accused’s arrest, and according to the Investigating Officer (IO), Gupta’s custodial interrogation was not required, he noted.

According to the FIR, Gupta raped the complainant on several occasions on the pretext of marriage. After performing a “sham marriage”, he also forced the complainant to abort, it said.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a week after an AIIMS doctor was summoned by a Delhi court for allegedly raping another doctor, an organisation working for women rights has demanded his suspension and an action against the Delhi Police for not interrogating him despite an FIR.  According to a press statement by Pragatisheel Mahila Sangathan, the Delhi Police completed its investigation and filed a charge sheet “without taking accused Dr Deepak Kumar into their custody.” An FIR was registered against Dr Deepak Kumar Gupta, a professor of neurosurgery at AIIMS, for allegedly raping another doctor on several occasions on the pretext of marriage.