KL Report
SRINAGAR
Health Department has taken serious note of the alleged assault on lady doctor by a Congress leader at Community Health Centre Hajin in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
“The Committee will submit factual report on Sunday and if it gets proved that the lady doctor was assaulted, then the department will impress upon the state government to take stringent action against the guilty,” Block Medical Officer Hajin, Dr Tariq Hassan told CNS adding that under rules no doctor is allowed to leave the hospital premises during his or her duty whether during night or the day.
Pertinently, Police had booked the son of former Ikhwani Imtiyaz Ahmed Parray, who is also associated with Congress party, in the assault case following a complaint by the female doctor on Wednesday. The FIR (84/2014) had been lodged in police station Sumbal.
“We are investigating the case thoroughly and today we have recorded the statements of witnesses. We will arrest the accused soon after we complete the investigation,” a top police official said.
The outgoing Chief Medical Officer Bandipora GM Dar said that the matter is also being investigated by Ladies Grievance Cell while District Social Welfare Officer Bandipora who also probed the matter will submit its report on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the victim female doctor was relieved from the CHC Hajin after her request to Directorate Health Services Kashmir to transfer her to some other place. “How can a male assault a female and that too during late hours in the hospital. I seek stringent punishment to the ‘guilty’,” the victim lady doctor said.
