Meghalaya: Police to move HC against doctor who allegedly denied treatment to minor rape victim
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Guwahati: A doctor has landed in soup as Meghalaya's South Garo Hills district police recently approached the high court seeking to register an FIR against him for allegedly denying medical treatment to a minor rape survivor citing that the incident took place in another district.
As per a recent media report in The New Indian Express, the matter erupted after the doctor allegedly refused to attend a 14-year-old rape victim due to the judicial issue, resultantly, the victim had to travel 75 km for getting treatment at another hospital. Meanwhile, all the four accused were arrest by the police.
The case concerned a minor girl, who was sexually assaulted at Nongalbibra in South Garo Hills. The victim was rescued by the police and rushed to the nearest government-run Civil Hospital at Williamnagar which was situated some 22 km away, in the East Garo Hills district. However, the doctor denied treatment on the pretext that the crime was committed in another district and hence, it comes under the jurisdiction of another district's authorities. The case was being investigated by the police.
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