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UP: Doctor booked, ward boy arrested for gang rape
Lucknow: A government doctor posted at the BRD Hospital in Mahanagar has been booked, and a ward boy was arrested for gang rape after the rape survivor filed a complaint with the police.
The police action comes after the alleged rape survivor filed a complaint stating that the accused duo raped her on April 30 when she had gone to the hospital for some treatment.
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According to the complaint, the accused duo tranquilised the woman before raping her.
S.M. Qasim Abidi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North, said, "An FIR of gangrape under Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 376-D and other appropriate charges have been registered at the Mahanagar police station against the doctor and the ward boy."
Meanwhile, the doctor has denied the rape charge and pleaded innocence, said DCP Abidi.
ADCP, north, Abijith R Shankar told TOI that the ward boy was arrested on the basis of the FIR lodged by a woman who alleged that she was raped when she had gone to the hospital for her checkup after she developed chest pain on April 30.
According to the accused doctor, the woman had come to the hospital, but she was referred to another medical facility. The doctor says that he never met the complainant thereafter.
This is the fourth rape case to have surfaced in the state capital in the last five days.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a government doctor and his assistant had 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 problems.
Kajal joined Medical Dialogue in 2019 for the Latest Health News. She has done her graduation from the University of Delhi. She mainly covers news about the Latest Healthcare. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.