Another disturbing case from India's Kolkata: Woman sleeping next to ailing son at hospital molested
Representative image of a hospital.
Another case of sexual assault has emerged from the Indian city of Kolkata. According to media reports on Sunday (Sept 15), a 26-year-old woman was molested by a health worker at a government-run hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Citing a complaint filed by the woman, a report by India Today said that the incident happened when the victim was sleeping in the children's ward of Kolkata's Institute of Child Health (ICH), where her son was hospitalised.
Accused recorded incident on his phone, gets arrested
The complaint said that the accused, a 26-year-old ward boy at the hospital,entered the children's ward,inappropriately touched and disrobed the woman. It added that the man also recorded the incident on his phone.
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The ward boy was arrested by the police, the India Today report added.
This incident in Kolkata comes days after a nurse at a hospital in West Bengal'sBirbhum district was molested by a man. This incident happened when the nurse wasadministering a saline drip to the man who was brought to the hospital due to a high fever.
In a complaint, the nurse said that the patientnot only touched her inappropriately but also used offensive language.
Latest updates from RG Kar Hospital case
Both these cases in West Bengal come weeks after a post-graduate trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was found brutally raped and murdered on August 9.
In the latest news from the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested the institute's former principal Sandip Ghosh, and Abhijit Mondal, who was the officer-in-charge of the Tala Police station.
A report by the news agency ANI said that Ghosh was arrested for misleading the investigation and for his alleged role in destroying the evidence. Mondal, meanwhile, was nabbed on accusations of delay in registering the FIR (First Information Report).
(With inputs from agencies)