Nurse allegedly commits suicide, doctors, colleague booked for abetment
Bengaluru: Staffers of a private hospital in Devanahalli have been booked after the mother of a nurse, who allegedly committed suicide by injecting herself with poison, claimed that doctors and male colleagues of the hospital abetted her to suicide.
The 24-year-old nurse, a native of Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh lived with her colleagues in the official quarters of the hospital in the same building. On August 3, the nurse injected herself with poison in her room following which she was getting treatment at the ICU of the same hospital where she worked.
The police did not find any suicide note on the spot. Her mother was eventually informed of the incident.
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"I arrived at the hospital around 3 pm the same day. Doctors treating the nurse asked me to shift her to a better hospital. Accordingly, I shifted her to another hospital in Hebbal the same night. But I was unable to bear the expenses and, therefore, shifted her to a government hospital in Anantapur on August 21. She died on August 29," the nurse's mother, Kantamma Naik, mentioned in her complaint.
Naik, however, found some pictures of her daughter and another colleague identified as Girish in her daughter's mobile phone, which she unlocked with the help of a relative last week, reports Times of India.
She added in her complaint, "Girish had taken pictures of the nurse while sleeping on the bed. Also, there were pictures of the two when they had gone out. These pictures made me suspect that Girish and doctors at the same hospital had something to do with her death."
Based on the complaint filed by Naik, the staff nurse identified as Girish and other doctors have been booked by the police under IPC Section 306, which is abetment to suicide.
An investigating officer further told the daily, "We have questioned some doctors and hospital staff. But prime suspect Girish is missing and, hence, no arrests have been made so far."
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