Overview
- Police registered a case after the patient’s family lodged a complaint and the victim reported what happened to officers on May 21, leading to the detention and arrest of Vijay Kumar Giri.
- The woman, a late-teen student, says the doctor took her alone into the operation theatre, gave an intoxicating or sedative injection and sexually assaulted her when she was semi-conscious.
- Investigators filed an FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita rape provision and sections of the SC/ST Act because the survivor is from a Scheduled Caste, and police say the accused has been remanded to judicial custody.
- The Uttar Pradesh health minister ordered Tejas Hospital sealed, the doctor’s medical licence suspended and instructed the Ayurveda department to confiscate his BAMS degree to prevent further practice.
- Police have seized the clothes the accused allegedly wore, sent the survivor for a medical examination and recorded staff statements as forensic tests and the criminal probe continue, a process that could prompt closer oversight of small private clinics.