Overview
- A woman postgraduate doctor at Bundelkhand Medical College in Sagar says she was touched inappropriately and threatened with being shot by two men who arrived to admit a patient early Thursday.
- Sagar police have filed an FIR naming Anil Shrivastava and an associate, Lakshmi Tiwari, and have booked them under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for molestation, outraging modesty, abusive language and obstructing public servants.
- Junior doctors, interns and nursing staff staged a work boycott and blocked a road on Friday to demand the immediate arrest of the accused and stronger protection for hospital staff.
- The accused deny the charges while hospital staff say the patient and attendant absconded and that private security guards present at the scene failed to stop them.
- The case has renewed wider concern about attacks on health workers in India and could prompt inquiries into the hospital's private security, police response and possible wider doctor-led protests if arrests do not follow.