Authorities in the Indian state of Bihar arrested three men on Thursday after a doctor and several staff members at a private hospital attempted to gang-rape a nurse, who reportedly slashed the doctor's genitals with a scalpel before fleeing.
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Sanju is one of the three Arrested On suspicion of attempted rape, Hindustan TimesCiting police reports, the paper reported that the men involved had been drinking and had committed multiple acts that indicated they had planned to rape the woman. At press time, it was unclear whether police believed the men intended to injure or kill the nurse in question. In addition to charges directly related to the attack, the men face: Consume Alcohol is illegal in Bihar.
The harrowing details of the attack come after weeks of political turmoil in India, where the constant threat of rape against health care workers has led to a furor. Female doctors, nurses and other medical workers in the country have accused government and private health care facilities of not providing enough security to prevent sexual assaults and killings of staff inside hospitals.
A nationwide doctors' strike broke out in August after a medical intern in Kolkata was raped and murdered while taking a nap in a hospital seminar room. Although the suspect did not work at the hospital and the hospital was fully operational at the time of the rape and murder, no one did anything to protect the woman or prevent the suspect, Sanjoy Roy, from entering the doctors' space in the hospital.
While the nationwide strike has subsided, a strike by local doctors in Kolkata continued this week.
India Today Reported The survivor in the Bihar case was a nurse who had been working at the RBS Healthcare Centre in Gangapur in the state for 10-15 months when police reportedly found her hiding in a vacant lot.
“The nurse said that the doctor, physiotherapist and two of their colleagues had been drinking alcohol before they began harassing her,” India Today reported. NarrationCiting the police report, she said: “When she resisted the doctor's advances, she initially struggled to fight him off. In an act of self-defence, she used a scalpel to attack the doctor, giving her the opportunity to escape and call for help.”
“The calmness and courage shown by the survivors is commendable,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar Pandey said. said Reporters.
of Hindustan Times Reported Police “found bloodstained sheets, a mobile phone and alcohol bottles in the hospital,” corroborating the nurse's story, and discovered that the clinic's private camera system had been turned off, possibly to allow the perpetrators to hide evidence of their crime.
In addition to Dr. Kumar, two other men Identified Sunil Kumar Gupta and Awadhesh Kumar are in police custody in connection with the incident.
The incident comes at a time when India is embroiled in a national controversy following a similar incident in which the victim died. In early August, a 31-year-old medical intern working at the RG Kall Medical College and Hospital, a government facility in Kolkata, was attacked, raped and murdered by a man who identified himself as Sanjoy Roy as she was trying to take a nap in a seminar room at the hospital. Found A broken neck and “eye injuries” suggest extreme violence in the final moments of her life.
Roy reportedly quickly confessed to the crime. The man was known among local residents to spend long hours at the hospital and behave inappropriately towards women who worked there, but he did not work at the hospital and had no relationships with patients. It is unclear why he was allowed to loiter on the premises. Roy reportedly claimed to be a “civilian volunteer” with the Kolkata Police and would often impersonate a police officer despite having no legitimate law enforcement authority.
Police later told reporters that Roy's phone contained “extremely disturbing and violent” pornographic material, and that he PoisoningDespite widespread reports that Roy was a nuisance to hospital staff and ultimately a major threat, there is no evidence that those in power at the government-run hospital ever tried to remove him from the hospital.
Doctors across the country went on strike in protest of the brutal rape and murder, with some protests turning violent in August. In one incident, unidentified people described as “thugs” with no connection to the protesting doctors were arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer. Attacked They attacked a medical hospital in Kolkata, ransacking the premises and causing severe damage to property. A few “militants” vandalised police vehicles and assaulted protesting doctors.
“A group of thugs entered the hospital. Doctors who were causing a disturbance were attacked and had to flee,” said Suvendu Mullick, a senior resident doctor. said India's World is One News (WION) reported: “Police officers even tried to enter the building where the junior doctor was raped and murdered while they stood as silent bystanders.”
The call for a nationwide doctors' strike was mainly Calmed down Even at the end of August, doctors in Kolkata remain off duty, refusing to comply with a court order directing them to return to work.
“Protesters camped outside the state health department headquarters and voiced five key demands, including justice for victims, the dismissal of police chiefs and better safety for health workers,” the BBC reported. Reported Local government officials have blamed striking doctors for at least 23 deaths.
