After a junior resident physician allegedly confronted sexual harassment by a nursing officer at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) Rishikesh, and docs agitated demanding motion, police Tuesday drove an SUV to the fourth flooring of the hospital constructing to arrest the accused.
The SUV additionally handed by a busy emergency triage space on the primary flooring, and a video of the incident has been broadly shared on social media.
The alleged incident of sexual harassment befell Sunday night. Nursing officer Satish Kumar is alleged to have harassed a junior resident physician inside an operation theatre. He’s additionally accused of sending objectionable messages to her on WhatsApp the subsequent day, together with threats that he would die by suicide.
Dehradun SSP Ajai Singh mentioned, “After the Might 19 incident, the matter was initially internally dealt with by the AIIMS administration. The accused was additionally admitted to the hospital after he complained of some well being points.”
The officer mentioned docs protested Tuesday after which the matter was reported to police and an FIR was filed underneath IPC sections 354 (assault or felony drive to lady with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (felony intimidation).
The accused had been admitted to a ward within the hospital on the time, and the SSP mentioned there was a “chance of a law-and-order scenario”.
“When the police reached, the AIIMS safety in-charge mentioned that we have to take away the accused from the ward, in any other case issues might escalate and even lead to mob lynching. To make sure a protected exit, we took the passage (ramp) utilized by ambulances to hold critical sufferers,” the officer mentioned.
“The police SUV went to the fourth flooring and arrested the accused as a result of it could have been laborious to securely deliver the accused on foot. When returning, the protesters noticed the SUV and chased it. On the primary flooring, the SUV was surrounded and the AIIMS safety personnel determined to create a passage by the Emergency Ward Triage to let it exit. The video making rounds is of the first-floor emergency triage,” Singh mentioned.
Speaking to the media, AIIMS director Professor Meenu Singh mentioned there was quite a lot of obstruction because the police SUV tried to exit the constructing after the arrest, and that this was why a passage was created by the realm used because the Emergency Ward Triage. “The automobile handed at a gradual velocity. Our safety personnel had been additionally there, making certain that the sufferers mendacity had been shifted to the aspect. There wasn’t any damage to anybody…,” the director mentioned.
On Wednesday, state Girls’s Fee chairperson Kusum Kandwal went to the institute and met the sufferer, in addition to the Dean, Dr Jaya Chaturvedi, and different girls docs.
Kandwal directed Dehradun DM to kind a probe committee. AIIMS administration has suspended the accused, and eliminated Assistant Nursing Superintendent Sinoj P from his submit, after Kandwal known as for his suspension additionally as a result of he had despatched the accused on obligation even after the grievance.