Navi Mumbai: A 39-year-old Mumbai-based doctor has recently been arrested by the police after a nurse registered a case of molestation against him.
According to the TOI report, the 30-year-old nurse lodged a complaint on 5th December and alleged that the doctor sought sexual favours from her and passed lewd remarks at her after which she registered a case of molestation.
The doctor has already been placed under arrest by the police under the charges of molestation.
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Talking to the Times of India, the Senior Inspector Satish Gaikwad informed that the nurse alleged that the accused doctor harassed her at her workplace. He was allegedly passing vulgar comments on the nurse when she was doing her duty.
Moreover, the nurse also claimed that the doctor was seeking sexual favours from her when she was serving in the hospital on Monday. Following this, she approached the police and filed a complaint of molestation and sexual abuse against the doctor.
TOI reports that the doctor was booked under section 354 under the charges of assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty and under section 500 (punishment for defamation) of the Indian Penal Code. He was arrested immediately and produced before Panvel JMFC court. Later, he secured bail after paying 15000 on Tuesday.
A similar incident took place a few months ago in a Mumbai-based hospital as well where a female doctor alleged that two of her colleague doctors were seeking sexual favours from her. The team reported the doctor alleged she was touched in an inappropriate manner on several occasions by the two doctors. She accused them of repeatedly approaching and touching her inappropriately in the doctors' room and demanding sexual favors from her.
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