The accused have been identified as B Boya Vasundhara (34), a resident of Kurnool, and a nurse at a private hospital in Adoni, and her two children, who are in their 20s. They were arrested on January 24, police said.
According to recent news reports, the incident took place on January 9 at around 2.30 pm, when the victim, an assistant professor at a private medical college in Kurnool, was returning home on a scooter after duty for lunch, two persons on a motorcycle intentionally rammed her scooter near the KC Canal at Vinayak Ghat, causing her to fall and sustain injuries.
The accused then approached her under the guise of offering help. While attempting to take her into an autorickshaw, Vasundhara allegedly administered an HIV injection before fleeing the spot when the victim raised an alarm, police said.
“After conspiring with three others and staging a road accident, Vasundhara allegedly injected an HIV virus into a doctor, who is the wife of her former lover,” the official told PTI.
According to the police, the accused obtained HIV-infected blood samples from patients receiving treatment at a government hospital, claiming the samples were required for research purposes. And the accused claimed to have stored the infected blood in a refrigerator.
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Unable to accept that her former lover had married another woman, the accused conspired to separate the couple.
The official said the victim received immediate treatment and is now fine, with doctors confirming her condition is stable.
Police said the virus cannot survive for days even when stored in a refrigerator, and the only concern was a foreign particle entering the body.
“Since the victim herself is a doctor, she knew the required tests and medication, and other doctors have advised her to return after three weeks as the mutation time,” the official said, reports PTI.
The victim’s husband, also a doctor, lodged a complaint at Kurnool III Town Police Station on January 10, following which a case was registered under Sections 126(2), 118(1), 272 read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
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