Cuttack: A senior resident doctor of the Cardiology Department at SCB Medical College and Hospital, identified as Thakur Dilbar Singh, has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault case on Tuesday.
Singh, who has been working in the cardiology department for the past two years, was apprehended by Mangalabag police following complaints lodged by the relatives of the victim patients.
Earlier today, the Health Department constituted a three-member committee to investigate the allegations against Singh. The committee includes Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar Mishra, DMET, Odisha; Prof. (Dr.) Sudhansu Sekhar Mishra, Superintendent, SCBMCH, Cuttack and Dean & Principal, SCB Medical College, Cuttack; and Prof. (Dr.) Roma Rattan, Joint DMET, Odisha. The committee will look into the allegations and recommend appropriate action to the government.
According to reports the women aged 50 and 44 had earlier visited the doctor, who asked them to come again on Sunday. The doctor took them to the laboratory on Sunday for the ECHO examination where Instead of conducting the test, he allegedly raped them.
The women informed their relatives, two of whom are MBBS students at SCB Medical College. Upon learning about the incident, the relatives reportedly assaulted the doctor. Later they provided a statement to the Manglabag police station, leading to the registration of a case under section 64(2)(e) in 2011/24. The doctor was arrested on Tuesday after being discharged from the SCB trauma ICU, where he was admitted due to injuries sustained during the assault.
The two women victims’ statements have been recorded by the police and will be recorded again before the magistrate on Wednesday.
On the other hand, the doctor’s family has also filed a case against the attackers, and investigations are ongoing on both sides. The family claimed that Dr. Dilbar, a medical student at SCB for three years, had no prior complaints about his character. They argued that he was called for the ECHO test at the request of the complainants’ relatives and questioned why he was beaten without a formal complaint. The accused doctor’s wife demanded that CCTV footage be reviewed to ascertain the truth.
While the nation is dealing with the rape and murder of a female doctor in West Bengal, today’s rape allegation against a doctor by two patients from Odisha’s SCB hospital has shocked the people.
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