Staffer given clean chit over rape allegations at Fortis Hospital Gurugram

Gurgaon | Monday | 2nd November, 2020

Summary:

Gurgaon: A person accused of raping a woman in the intensive care unit of Fortis Hospital in sector 44 last week was given a clean chit by the city police on Sunday.

Police said the suspects, who was a contractual staff at the hospital, was questioned and given a clean chit after no concrete evidence was found to prove his culpability.

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Gurgaon: A person accused of raping a woman in the intensive care unit of Fortis Hospital in sector 44 last week was given a clean chit by the city police on Sunday.

Police said the suspects, who was a contractual staff at the hospital, was questioned and given a clean chit after no concrete evidence was found to prove his culpability.

The woman, in her twenties, is a tuberculosis patient and was admitted to the hospital on October 21.

She had informed her father about the alleged sexual assault through a hand-written note on Tuesday, following which a complaint was registered by the police.

The main accused and another person were X-ray technicians who had gone to scan the patient, who was admitted on October 21.

Police have now initiated proceedings to quash the FIR in the case.

The police on Saturday had recorded one-page statement of the woman, and according to the investigators, she contradicted the details of her complaint before her legal counsel, police, the board of doctors and her father, police said.

The woman is still recovering and is under observation.