New Delhi: Hospital Staffer Arrested for Alleged Molestation

The police have arrested a hospital staffer for allegedly molesting a 43-year-old woman inside Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi's Tahirpur. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday when the woman was asleep.

A 25-year-old employee of the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi's Tahirpur has been apprehended for allegedly molesting a woman, Delhi police said on Thursday.

The police have identified the accused as a resident of Dayalpur who works as a helper in the hospital.

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Information about the molestation incident was received on Wednesday noon, Delhi Police said.

The police said that, as per the victim’s statement, the accused touched her inappropriately on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday when she was sleeping in the same ward where her husband was being treated since Monday.

“Statement of the victim was recorded in which she said that her husband has been admitted in the hospital since May 22. She was sleeping on the fifth floor in the same ward where her husband was admitted when the accused came to her between 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., touched her inappropriately and molested her,” the senior police official said.

Acting on the complaint of the victim, an FIR under section 354/354(A) Indian Penal Code was registered at GTB Enclave police station in the national capital.

Further investigation into the matter is in progress.

A team had earlier reported that a middle-aged man pretending to be a doctor entered the Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital and allegedly molested a 20-year-old woman undergoing treatment. The police arrested the accused in connection with the case. The accused, posing as a doctor, molested the victim on the pretext of examining her. He touched the victim inappropriately and immediately fled the scene when the victim alerted the staff. The police arrested the accused based on the complaint of the woman’s father, who stated that the man purposely touched her daughter to molest her.

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