Now days it seems that women’s
are not safe anywhere as a recent has come up from a hospital where a ward boy
raped a 22 year old woman who was a patient in the hospital. She was undergoing
treatment for depression and was allegedly forced into an empty room where she
was gagged to ensure that she do not scream for help and then raped by two
employees of the hospital on late
Monday. This horrific incident happened in SHKM Government Medical College in
Mewat of Haryana district which is close to Gurgaon.
Till now one of the suspects
has been identified as the ward boy and the other a security guard but police
have not arrested them.
The woman was admitted in
ward number 7 on the fifth floor of the hospital when the ward boy called her
out around 11:30 pm, as told by the police.
When she came out of the
ward and started moving towards the lounges, where her relatives were staying,
the ward boy grabbed her and took her forcefully inside a empty room. There was
one guard who had stationed himself near the room to see that no one enters
that room and later gagged her before they raped her.
The police told that they
would have continued the assault but they received a call from the hospital
after 1 am because the brother in law of the woman who was staying in the
lounge had come to check on her and found her stole lying outside the room
along the passage. He raised an alarm, the ward boy and guard fled from the
room.
According to the police
they have identified the ward boy, who was a private staffer and was working on
contract at the hospital. Several raids have been conducted by the police to
catch them and meanwhile they have been booked under charges of rape and
criminal conspiracy.
The woman was a mother of
three who lives in Mewat area of Haryana and was admitted to the hospital on
2nd June. She has given her statement to the police in which she told that when
she was sleeping in the female general ward a ward boy woke her up, saying her
son who was staying with her brother in law and sister in the lounge was crying
and her relatives were calling her to pacify the child.
The director of Hospital,
Dr Sansarchand Sharma has said that this is a shocking and unacceptable
incident. They will terminate the services of the accused and fully cooperate
in the investigation.
