West Bengal: 'Rape' of minor in government hospital, accused arrested

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Kolkata, October 23 (IANS) A youth has been arrested for sexually assaulting a minor girl on the premises of the government-run SSKM Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Police gave this information on Thursday.

According to a city police official, the crime took place on Wednesday afternoon in the hospital premises and the police arrested the accused persons the same night.

The accused youth has been booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, 2012 and will be produced in a Kolkata trial court on Thursday. The government lawyer will demand his police custody.

Although the police refused to reveal the exact identity of the arrested youth till he is produced in court, city police sources said the accused is a contractual staff member attached to another Kolkata-based government hospital, NRS Medical College and Hospital.

It has been learned that the accused youth was earlier associated with SSKM and used to come to the hospital.

The main charge against him is molestation of a 15-year-old minor girl in the toilet of SSKM campus. The victim had come to the out-patient department of SSKM for some treatment.

The victim’s family members claimed that the accused, posing as a doctor, took the victim to the toilet of the trauma care center of the hospital and molested her there. The victim came out of the toilet in a state of shock and narrated her ordeal to her parents.

Bhabanipur police station was informed, following which a police team arrested the accused the same night. Now, questions are being raised as to how the accused could move around freely within SSKM when he was no longer associated with the hospital.