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New Delhi, April 21
The Gurguram police arrested a technician in connection with the alleged rape of a woman patient at Medanta Hospital and found that the accused was a porn addict and visited the patient's cubicle three times.
The accused has been identified as Deepak, a resident of Badhauli village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, who had been employed as an ICU equipment technician at the hospital for the past five months.
The woman, employed with a private airline, had alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a staff member at Medanta while she was on a ventilator there earlier this month.
Dr Arpit Jain, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters), said statements of the survivor and three nurses corroborate the incident.
The police probe showed that the CCTV cameras captured him and he was seen entering the cubicle three times. In one footage he was seen exiting the cubicle after 17 minutes. The police added that his work didn't require him to remain near the patient for more tan 2 minutes.
The police seized Deepak’s mobile browsing history that showed he was addicted to porn; he watched it during the days before and after the incident.
The incident came to light on April 14 when the woman lodged a complaint with the police detailing the assault. The woman had come to Gurugram for training and was staying at a hotel. She was admitted to a hospital after she almost drowned while swimming. On April 5, her husband shifted her to Medanta for further care. After she was discharged on April 13, she informed her husband about the incident, and they then reported it to the police.
The police have invoked sections 68 (sexual intercourse by a person in authority) and 64(2)e (whoever being on the management or the staff of a hospital commits rape on a woman in that hospital) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
