Gwalior Doctor, assistant booked for allegedly raping woman; offering Rs 3 lakh to withdraw complaint

Gwalior: A government doctor and his assistant have been booked by the Gwalior police on charges of raping a 40-year-old woman on the pretext of providing her treatment at the clinic. The police asserted that the accused doctor allegedly offered her a sum of Rs 3 lakh for withdrawing the complaint.

As per the complainant, she had gone to the doctor's clinic in Shri Ram Colony to treat some problem, Jhansi Road police station inspector Sanjeev Nayan Sharma said.

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According to additional SP (crime), Rajesh Dandotiya, the woman was suffering from a headache, following which she went to the Madhav dispensary of the Jaya Arogya hospital group in Gwalior on Wednesday, reports the Free Press Journal. 

The woman filed a police complaint and stated that while standing in the queue at the Madhav dispensary, she was approached by an unknown person who introduced himself as Raju Pandit. Pandit then took her to Shriram Colony on the pretext of arranging her meeting with a doctor. Later, when she visited the doctor's clinic, the doctor began the check-up, and the duo allegedly took turns to outrage her modesty and banished her from the place when someone knocked on the door.

The woman further alleged that the accused offered her a sum of Rs 3 lakh to withdraw the complaint.

"She has said she was raped inside a room in the clinic by the doctor and his assistant on Wednesday. They threatened her and then let her go. Efforts are on to nab the two. The doctor runs a clinic here but is attached to a government hospital in Dholpur in Rajasthan," the official added.

Additional SP Rajesh Dandautia said that on the complaint of the married woman, an FIR had been registered for gang rape. Soon the accused will be arrested. 

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