GURGAON: A 25-year-old ICU technician at Medanta Hospital was arrested on Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting a flight attendant while she was on ventilator support at the facility earlier this month.
The woman (46), who is based in West Bengal and works with a private airline, filed a police complaint on April 14, alleging that a male staffer of the hospital sexually assaulted her while she was admitted to the intensive care unit and she could not speak up or resist because of her condition.
Police said suspicion fell on Deepak, who has been working as an equipment technician at Medanta's ICU for five months, after going through CCTV footage.
"Deepak's movement in the footage pointed to him as a suspect," a police officer said.
"The woman's statements and the nurses' statements corroborate, and this also established him as an accused," the officer added.
The technician, who is from Bihar's Muzaffarpur, was among 50 staffers questioned by police and "admitted" to the crime during the interrogation, police said.
Medanta said in a statement on Friday that it has suspended the technician and will continue to provide full support to police in the investigation.
"We have been informed that the police have identified a suspect who has been taken into custody in connection with the ongoing investigation concerning allegations of sexual assault on a patient. On the basis of the information provided to us by the police, at present, we have suspended the suspect employee," the statement issued by the hospital's medical superintendent Dr Sanjay Durani read.
The flight attendant was taken to the hospital on April 5 after she nearly drowned in a swimming pool while training at the airline's facility in the city. She said the sexual assault took place on April 6 but could not recall a time-range as she was in a dazed condition at the time.
It was only after her discharge from the hospital that she told her husband about the sexual assault. The couple approached Sadar police station on April 14 and an FIR was registered under BNS sections 64(2) (rape) and 68 (sexual intercourse in authority)
Police commissioner Vikas Kumar Arora subsequently formed an SIT headed by DCP (HQ) Arpit Jain. The eight-member team includes ACP (Sadar) Yashwant, ACP (crimes against women) Kavita, SHO (Sadar) Sunil Kumar and SHO (women's PS) Geeta.
DCP Arpit told TOI that the team scanned footage from more than 800 CCTV cameras installed at the hospital premises and questioned over 50 staff members.
"After scanning CCTV footage, police were able to identify and trace the accused, who was arrested from Sadar on April 18. The accused has been identified as Deepak (25), who is from Badhouli village in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar," the DCP said.
Deepak will be produced before a court on Saturday and taken for remand for further investigation.
The woman (46), who is based in West Bengal and works with a private airline, filed a police complaint on April 14, alleging that a male staffer of the hospital sexually assaulted her while she was admitted to the intensive care unit and she could not speak up or resist because of her condition.
Police said suspicion fell on Deepak, who has been working as an equipment technician at Medanta's ICU for five months, after going through CCTV footage.
"Deepak's movement in the footage pointed to him as a suspect," a police officer said.
"The woman's statements and the nurses' statements corroborate, and this also established him as an accused," the officer added.
The technician, who is from Bihar's Muzaffarpur, was among 50 staffers questioned by police and "admitted" to the crime during the interrogation, police said.
Medanta said in a statement on Friday that it has suspended the technician and will continue to provide full support to police in the investigation.
"We have been informed that the police have identified a suspect who has been taken into custody in connection with the ongoing investigation concerning allegations of sexual assault on a patient. On the basis of the information provided to us by the police, at present, we have suspended the suspect employee," the statement issued by the hospital's medical superintendent Dr Sanjay Durani read.
The flight attendant was taken to the hospital on April 5 after she nearly drowned in a swimming pool while training at the airline's facility in the city. She said the sexual assault took place on April 6 but could not recall a time-range as she was in a dazed condition at the time.
It was only after her discharge from the hospital that she told her husband about the sexual assault. The couple approached Sadar police station on April 14 and an FIR was registered under BNS sections 64(2) (rape) and 68 (sexual intercourse in authority)
Police commissioner Vikas Kumar Arora subsequently formed an SIT headed by DCP (HQ) Arpit Jain. The eight-member team includes ACP (Sadar) Yashwant, ACP (crimes against women) Kavita, SHO (Sadar) Sunil Kumar and SHO (women's PS) Geeta.
DCP Arpit told TOI that the team scanned footage from more than 800 CCTV cameras installed at the hospital premises and questioned over 50 staff members.
"After scanning CCTV footage, police were able to identify and trace the accused, who was arrested from Sadar on April 18. The accused has been identified as Deepak (25), who is from Badhouli village in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar," the DCP said.
Deepak will be produced before a court on Saturday and taken for remand for further investigation.
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