Ratnagiri horror: Nursing student drugged, raped by autorickshaw driver on way home from hospital
Ratnagiri: After the brutal rape and murder of a PG trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College Hospital in Kolkata, another shocking incident of rape has been reported by Maharashtra's Ratnagiri. This time a 19-year-old nursing student of a private hospital in Ratnagiri was reportedly drugged and raped by an auto-rickshaw driver while she was returning home from hospital on Monday night.
According to a preliminary investigation by the police, the student booked an autorickshaw on her way back home when the driver allegedly mixed sedatives in the water and offered her to drink. Following this, she lost consciousness and the driver allegedly took her to a deserted place and allegedly raped her.
After she regained consciousness, the victim contacted her family members informing them about the terrifying incident. She then approached the police station along with her parents and filed a complaint. Based on her statements, the police registered a case against the unknown autorickshaw driver under relevant charges of sexual assault.
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Subsequently, the victim was admitted to a government hospital and is currently undergoing treatment. Meanwhile, the police are investigating and checking CCTV footage to locate the accused driver. A medical examination in this regard is pending.
As per India Today news report, this incident triggered a massive outage and protest among the nursing community in Ratnagiri where hundreds of nurses and hospital staff staged a protest holding banners and chanting slogans demanding the death penalty for the accused.
After locals became aware of the incident, the protest escalated as they took to the streets along with the hospital staff blocking the road for hours last night in Ratnagiri demanding justice for the victim.
This comes within a month of a nurse rape & murder incident on July 30 in Uttarakhand. She was allegedly sexually assaulted and killed with her face crushed with a stone by the accused who dumped her body in a vacant plot in a Uttar Pradesh village near the Uttarakhand border.
It also comes amid protest over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run medical college and hospital in Kolkata. She was allegedly raped and murdered while on duty.
Medical Dialogues had reported that the half-naked body of the deceased was recovered from the seminar hall of the hospital. A preliminary autopsy report indicated sexual abuse before she was killed. As per the inquest report, there was bleeding from the doctor's eyes and mouth, injury on the face and nails, bleeding from her genitals, and several other injury marks on different parts of her body. Soon after the news of this horrific incident came to light, doctors in Bengal and across the country started a massive protest demanding justice.
