Kolkata, October 29:The West Bengal government has once again come to spot light after state police has arrested a doctor on charges of raping a female patient after injecting her with a tranquillizing serum.
The incident has occurred in Hasnabad in North 24 Parganas district.
Local police said the doctor was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim and her husband, who is working in a different state.
In her complaint, victim alleged that a few days back when her husband was out of the state, she went to the accused doctor for treatment.
As per the complaint, the doctor first tranquillized her and then raped her. However, that was not the end. The accused doctor also captured the photos of the victim in awkward positions while she was in a tranquillized stage and then blackmailed her, threatening to make it viral.
The victim also alleged that by blackmailing her, the said doctor thereafter raped her again and again and extorted ₹ 4,00,000 from her by threatening to make her pictures viral on social media.
The complainant was not initially able to confide the developments to anyone out of fear of loss of social prestige. She also said that she was feeling helpless as her husband was out of the state during that period.
However, when her husband returned to home she shared her ordeal to him. The husband consoled her and pursued her to file a police complaint so that the accused doctor could get arrested.
Thereafter, on receipt of the complaint, the police arrested the accused doctor and presented at a district court and the public prosecutor had sought his five-day police custody.
