The medical examination of the lady has been accomplished, police mentioned (Representational)
Thiruvananthapuram:
A well being official in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram has been arrested for allegedly raping a 44-year-old girl, who was in search of a coronavirus damaging certificates from him.
The complainant has alleged that the official, who’s a junior well being inspector, had allegedly requested her to come back to his home to get the certificates, police mentioned. On reaching his home, the lady mentioned she was allegedly wrongfully confined, tied-up, bodily assaulted and raped.
“The official allegedly bodily assaulted her, tied her fingers and mouth for a while in between, and raped her. The medical examination has been accomplished. Additional investigation is underway. A case has been registered beneath part 376 of the IPC,” Circle Inspector Suneesh informed NDTV.
The girl had returned to her dwelling lately and was requested to endure quarantine by the official.
She underwent an antigen take a look at which was damaging and was informed by the person to gather the take a look at certificates from his flat the place she was allegedly raped and allowed to depart solely the following day, police mentioned.
Kerala Well being Minister KK Shailaja has ordered for the suspension of the official, recognized as Pradeep, from service, pending enquiry.
The Girls’s fee has additionally registered a case towards the official.
The incident comes a day after an ambulance driver was arrested for the alleged rape of a 19-year-old girl in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta, based mostly on a grievance.
Preliminary probe means that he was employed by the corporate final 12 months with out a police clearance certificates.
“He has been terminated from the service. We had despatched a number of reminders to few of the recruits asking for the police clearance certificates to be submitted. The accused had submitted a letter saying he has requested for a police clearance certificates however didn’t submit any,” a senior official of GVK EMRI informed NDTV.
Condemning each instances, chief of the opposition within the state meeting Ramesh Chennithala mentioned the 2 incidents of rape has introduced disgrace to the state. These incidents exhibits the “critical lapses” on the a part of the well being division, information company PTI quoted him as saying.
(With inputs from PTI)
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