Bankura: In another incident of rape in West Bengal, a physically challenged woman was allegedly raped by a junior doctor in a government hospital in Bankura district, police said Wednesday.
"We have received a complaint that a deaf and mute woman was raped by a junior doctor of Bankura Sammilani Medical College. The victim was medically examined locally and we are taking her to Kolkata for another medical test," Bankura Superintendent of Police Pranav Kumar said.
The clothes of the victim and the bedsheets have also been sent for examination. The 19-year-old girl was found lying naked in an unconscious state in the medicine department of the hospital in Bankura, about 150 km from Kolkata, where she was admitted on Monday night for chest pain.
Following a complaint by the victim's family, the hospital has constituted a three-member committee to look into the allegations.
"We have received a complaint in this regard. It is learned that the said doctor examined the patient without being accompanied either by a female hospital staff or a female attendant. The probe team will look into the allegations," hospital superintendent Panchanan Kundu said.
The incident comes at a time when the Mamata Banerjee-led government has been facing flak over rising rape cases in the state. While an Anglo-Indian woman was raped in Park Street earlier this month, a ragpicker was allegedly gang-raped and then murdered by a truck driver and his helper in North 24 Parganas' Baranagar on February 24.
The allegations of rape continued when a woman commuter complained that she was raped by a gang of robbers after she tried to confront them during a robbery attempt in a suburban train near Katwa.
Caught red-handed
In another incident, two people were lynched after they were caught raping a woman in East Midnapore February 26. On Tuesday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had rejected reports of gang-rape of a woman in Burdwan's Katwa and blamed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) for orchestrating a malicious campaign against her government. However, the CPI-M said she had a habit of making irresponsible comments.
