A 35-year-old doctor has been arrested for allegedly raping a 16-year-old female patient at a private medical college in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district, police said on Thursday. Another case of sexual assault has also been lodged in connection with an unidentified man entering a girl’s hostel room on the same campus and allegedly trying to rape her.
According to the police, the doctor, identified as Roopam Jain, also a faculty member, allegedly raped the girl at his residence on the campus of the Amaltas Institute of Medical Sciences on Tuesday after calling her for a check-up.
Dewas Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Harinarayan Batham told The Hindu that Dr. Jain was arrested on Wednesday based on a complaint by the girl and has been sent to judicial custody.
“The girl had met him about one and a half months ago when she visited the hospital with her parents. He had called her on Tuesday for some check-up, took her to his residence and raped her,” Mr. Batham said, adding that the girl narrated the ordeal to her parents immediately after incident.
Mr. Batham said the second incident took place on Wednesday night when an intruder entered the room of a second year girl student through an air-conditioning duct when she was sleeping.
