Ambulance driver gets Life Sentence for raping COVID patient
Kerala: An ambulance driver who raped a a 19-year-old woman patient while transporting her to a Covid care centre in September 2020, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Kerala court on Friday.
V. Noufal, the ambulance driver, was transporting the patient from a medical centre to a Covid care centre opened by the state government. Instead of taking her to the Centre, he took her to another place and sexually assaulted her, news agency IANS reported.
After the incident, Noufal apologised to her, which she had recorded on her mobile phone.
R. Binu, the Kerala Police official who headed the probe, said it was a difficult case as the state was under lockdown.
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“We found it hard to get evidence, and it was after a team work we were able to get all the evidence and filed the charge sheet,” said Binu.
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