A 14-year-old girl, who had accompanied her father to his dialysis treatment, was allegedly heinously raped by an employee at a private hospital in Faridabad Sector 16, Haryana, India on Saturday, Aug. 21.
The suspect, identified as Raj Kishore, 24, of Bharat Colony in Faridabad, has worked as a housekeeping supervisor in the hospital for the last few months.
Kishore allegedly took the 14-year-old girl to the building’s basement on the pretext of “some urgent work” before proceeding to rape her while the victim's father was undergoing dialysis treatment on the hospital premises, Hindustan Times reported.
According to OP Singh, Commissioner of Police, Kishore asked the victim to follow him “for some urgent work regarding her father’s treatment” while she was returning from the washroom. He then led her to the hospital building's basement, locked her in a room to brutally raped her before fleeing the health facility.
The victim narrated the violent ordeal to her family members who in turn alerted the authorities at the Sector 16 Police Station about the assault.
Police have registered a case against the suspect under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. The suspect was immediately identified through CCTV footage from the hospital. The underage victim has since undergone a medical examination and immediate treatment t, according to SheThePeople.
“The teams arrested him within hours based on human intelligence and technical surveillance. He was sent to judicial custody on Sunday,” Singh related.
The police have recorded the statement of hospital staff and family members. Authorities are now examining the suspect's past records to see if he has had a criminal record.
In a similar but unrelated incident, a COVID-19 infected woman died on May 19, after allegedly being savagely and mercilessly gang-raped by three hospital employees in Patna, India.
The horrifying and inhumane incident reportedly happened at the private Paras-HMRI hospital in Patna, India where the patient was undergoing treatment for COVID-19, Latin Times reported.
"My mother was sexually assaulted by three persons inside the hospital ICU on May 16. She had informed me about the incident. Since then her health condition deteriorated. I spoke to my relatives and the women's wing of the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) about the incident," the deceased woman's daughter posted on social media.
The woman’s daughter added that the hospital's administration forcefully transitioned her mother to ventilator support following the report of the assault.
"I suspect that the doctors in the hospital intubated her in the neck so that she couldn't give her statement to the police. Now they have declared her dead," she said in her post on social media.
Physician P.D. Gupta from the hospital's management clarified that the hospital management followed an internal inquiry based on the allegations by the woman’s daughter and asserted that the alleged incident did not happen in the hospital premises.
Duty Magistrate of Patna M.L. Khan reportedly ordered a post-mortem examination of the patient's body to confirm whether the woman was sexually assaulted.
Meanwhile, the hospital administration previously cited COVID-19 as the cause of her death.
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