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SINDRI: Dhanbad Police has arrested ambulance driver Sanjay Das, who allegedly raped a mentally challenged and speech-impaired woman admitted to the female medicine ward of SNMMCH late on Sunday night.
SP (Dhanbad city) R Ramkumar said the accused was caught on Monday night and sent to judicial custody on Tuesday. He said police took the support of counsellor cum advocate Lopamudra to talk to the survivor. Based on their conversation, police confirmed that the woman was raped and lodged a case based on a complaint filed by police inspector Pawan Kumar Choudhary.
Ramkumar further said Das was arrested from Bhuli locality from where he was trying to flee with his ambulance. The SP said Das confessed his crime to the police and released the tea joint owner, who was previously thought of as Das’s accomplice, as his involvement in the crime could not be established.
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SINDRI: A mentally challenged and speech-impaired woman, who was admitted to the medicine ward of Shaheed Nirmal Mahto Medical College and Hospital (SNMMCH) in Dhanbad was allegedly raped by an ambulance driver with the help of a tea joint owner on late Sunday night.
The incident has put a question mark over the safety of female patients at the government-run healthcare centre.
While the hospital staff caught hold of the tea shop owner, Kishun, and has been handed over to police, the ambulance driver identified as one Sanjay Das is said to be absconding.
Following the incident, the SNMMCH management has constituted a five-member committee consisting of heads of medicine, gynaecology, radiology, clinical pathology and emergency medicine departments to probe the incident and identify the persons responsible for allowing outsiders to enter the female ward in the dead of the night.
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SINDRI: An elderly woman living alone in the posh Kusum Vihar colony under Saraidhela police station in Dhanbad was brutally killed on Monday night. According to police, going by the manner in which the crime was executed, the killers might have been known to the deceased. Police were examining the CCTV footage taken from a nearby house but were yet to get any clue about the identity of the assailants.
The woman, Sheela Sinha, was the wife of a retired BSNL SDO. Her husband, S P Sinha, died nearly 10 years ago.
According to reports, her son Samit, an LIC employee in Patna, made a call to his mother at around 10pm on Monday and when there was no response, he asked one of the tenants to check. The latter found the door locked from outside and when despite repeated knocks there was no response from the elderly woman, police were informed. The cops broke open the door and found the woman lying on the floor with both her hands tied and stab wound on her neck. The