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A pistillate doc was assaulted implicit a diligent quality astatine a State-run aesculapian assemblage at Uluberia in Howrah. Two persons were arrested, and 1 of the perpetrators is allegedly a constabulary location guard. Three others were arrested for a abstracted incidental of sexual battle connected a pistillate astatine Jalpaiguri territory successful northbound Bengal.
According to constabulary officials, 2 persons were arrested on Monday for the battle connected a pistillate inferior nonmigratory doc in the Uluberia Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital.
“The doc has lodged an authoritative complaint. We person filed a First Information Report. The 2 persons named successful the FIR person already been arrested close aft the assault,” Jadhav Shubham Pandurang, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (Uluberia), told The Hindu on Tuesday. He besides confirmed that an probe was underway.
One of the accused is allegedly a police location defender who had threatened the pistillate doc of consequences if she near the infirmary premises. She also alleged that she received rape threats during the assault. The arrested location defender has been identified arsenic Sheikh Babulal. According to the doctor, she was pushed astir and physically assaulted during the heated enactment wherever the people accompanying a diligent started escalating the matter.
“I was connected duty. I was conducting examinations connected the ailing patient. The diligent enactment started hitting maine and 1 of them claimed that helium is a high-ranking constabulary authoritative and a ruling enactment worker, but erstwhile constabulary reached the spot, he said helium is simply a location guard,” the doc said.
‘No information for women’
The absorption Bharatiya Janta Party slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the deficiency of women information successful the State and repeated assaults connected women doctors.
“If helium is calling himself a constabulary serviceman and harassing women, past it is simply a substance of serious concern. Then who volition support people?” Sukanta Majumdar, MP and former BJP State president, asked. He said West Bengal nether the Trinamool Congress was unsafe for women.
BJP workers staged protests against the incidental in Uluberia.
The West Bengal Doctors Forum condemned the battle and said this was not an isolated transgression but a “symptom of lawlessness that has gripped the healthcare system.”
This comes aft aggregate different incidents of rape and battle connected women doctors were recorded successful the State successful the past 1 year, including the rape and execution of a pistillate doc successful R.G. Kar Hospital successful August 2024 in Kolkata, which took the federation by storm. Another pistillate staffer was raped wrong a infirmary in Panskura.
Gang rape successful northbound Bengal
In different incident, a homemaker successful northbound Bengal’s Maynaguri area was gangraped by miscreants. Three men were arrested for the crime.
The homemaker alleged that she was sexually assaulted wrong her home. The perpetrators threatened to termination her if she spoke astir the assault.
The subsister filed a ailment connected Sunday (October 19), and the incident happened connected Friday (October 17). One idiosyncratic was arrested on Sunday, two others were arrested connected Monday. All 3 perpetrators were from the aforesaid colony arsenic the survivor, and they were known to each other, said Subal Chandra Ghosh, Inspector-in-charge at the Maynaguri police station.
In 2 different incidents of sexual assault successful 2025, 2 young women were raped connected 2 metropolis assemblage campuses. One pistillate pupil from Odisha was raped adjacent her backstage aesculapian assemblage successful Durgapur a fewer days ago.
