The police on Saturday said they were planning to begin the process of quashing a first information report against an outsourced employee ...
The police on Saturday said they were planning to begin the process of quashing a first information report against an outsourced employee at Fortis Hospital in Gurugram after a 21-year-old patient accused him of raping her, the Hindustan Times reported.
The police said the statement of the woman, a tuberculosis patient, was recorded on Saturday, and that she had contradicted the details in front of the board of doctors, her legal counsel, and father. She was taken off ventilator support on Friday evening.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (headquarters) Usha Kundu, appointed nodal officer in the case, said she first accused the hospital’s outsourced staff, but later claimed on Saturday that she was raped by the X-ray team. According to the police, the woman changed her statement and said she did not remember anything clearly about the incident.
Kundu said that when a woman and two men had escorted her for an X-Ray in the basement, the complainant claimed she was told she was pregnant. “...she thought she was raped [in the hospital] but her X-Ray was conducted through a portable machine inside the ICU in the presence of woman staff,” the officer told the newspaper. “The teams were questioned and they said they had asked her if she was pregnant before...
