Two arrested for assaulting a doctor in Assam's Hailakandi, second case in a week

Guwahati | Saturday | 5th June, 2021

Summary:

The arrested Rumpi Malakar and Himanshu had admitted their patient Chitta Malakar in a critical condition to the hospital on May 27, who later died.

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After the recent incident of attack on a doctor in Hojai, Assam, the incident of attack on a doctor has also come to the fore in Hailakandi.

In this case, the police have arrested two people including a woman on Friday; both have been arrested for misbehaving with a doctor posted at SK Roy Civil Hospital in Hailakandi.

According to Hailakandi Superintendent of Police Ramandeep Kaur, the arrested woman has been admitted to the Covid ward of the hospital after she contracted the virus.

According to police, the arrested Rumpi Malakar and Himanshu had admitted their patient Chitta Malakar in a critical condition to the hospital on May 27, who later died.

After the death of the patient, both had misbehaved with the medical officer Dr.

Gaurav Bhattacharjee.

The doctor had lodged an FIR in this case at Hailakandi Sadar police station.