Mumbai: A doctor was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting the mother of a three-month-old infant admitted in the Intensive Care Unit of a Nursing Home in Mumbai on December 15.
The 26-year-old woman had gone to the Dattaraya Nursing Home in Mumbai's Vakola area to check on her ailing son when the accused, Dr. Narendra Naravade, attempted to molest her on the pretext of a medical check-up. Naravade fled the scene soon after the incident.
In her statement to the police, the woman said that at 7:30 am, while patients in the ICU were asleep, a doctor woke her up and told her that they had to take her son for a checkup.
"After his checkup the doctor told me to get myself checked as well. I said that I did not have any illness but he insisted anyway. He began touching me inappropriately," the woman said.
"I attempted to resist but he drew the curtains to the ICU section, asked me to undress, and molested me," she said.
"After the incident, I told a nurse at the clinic about the molestation and reported the matter to a senior doctor, Rakesh Duggal, who contacted my husband. By then Dr Naravade had fled," she added.
Officers from Vakola police station said that the victim, a mother of two, is a resident of Rankahan Patel Chawl in Santacruz. Her three-month-old had caught cold and fever five days ago, following which he was admitted at the clinic.
The Vakola police have arrested the doctor from his house at Vakola.
"We will record the statement of the doctor and the other staff of the nursing home," said Anil Kharade, senior police inspector.
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