Doctor in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, was arrested for allegedly raping a 20-year-old Dalit nurse employed at his hospital on Saturday night. According to the police, two other hospital staff members were also arrested for allegedly forcing the nurse to go to the doctor’s residence. The accused, a BAMS doctor, has been running a private hospital in Moradabad for the past five years with his wife, who holds the same degree.
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The victim, a Dalit woman, had been working at the hospital for 10 months. Her father, who filed the First Information Report (FIR) at the local police station, stated that she was on night duty and arrived at the hospital at 7 pm on Saturday. He reported that around midnight, a nurse and a ward boy informed her that the doctor had summoned her to his residence within the hospital campus. When she refused, they forcibly took her to the room and locked the door from the outside, according to her father’s account to the police.
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“After lodging the FIR on Sunday morning, we raided the hospital and arrested the doctor for rape and threatening to kill the victim if she dared to tell anyone about the incident. The ward boy and the nurse have also been arrested for forcibly taking her to the doctor’s room,” Sandeep Kumar Meena, Superintendent of Police (Rural), Moradabad, said. The doctor was booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and under Section 63 (rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and the nurse and the ward boy were booked under Section 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the BNS, Meena added.
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