WB: Doctor held for raping sedated patient, blackmailing her with video

A doctor has reportedly been arrested from a border town in West Bengal for allegedly raping a patient after sedating her, filming the sexual assault, and then extorting Rs 4 lakh from her by threatening to release the video clip on social media.

The accused, Nur Alam Sardar, allegedly sexually assaulted the 26-year-old woman multiple times using the video to blackmail her, reported The Times of India.

Doctor arrested

The incident took place in Hasnabad, a town in North 24-Parganas district, some 70 km from Kolkata, near the Bangladesh border.

The torture went on for a while, until the woman registered an FIR with Hasnabad police earlier this week. Sardar was arrested from his clinic-cum-residence in the town’s Barunhat area based on the complaint. He was remanded in police custody for four days.

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Basirhat SP Hossain Mehedi Rehman told The Times of India that the registered medical practitioner allegedly raped the woman after sedating her. An investigation is underway, he said.

Protest continues

The incident comes at a time when the doctors’ protest against the August 9 rape-murder of a junior medic at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital continues, with junior doctors and common people organising a torch rally in Kolkata on Wednesday evening (October 30).

Representatives of the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum and several civil society organisations took out the rally from the West Bengal Medical Council’s office in Sector 3 in Salt Lake to the CBI’s office at the CGO Complex in Sector 1.

Shouting slogans like “We want justice”, the participants demanded that the CBI complete its investigation into the rape-murder case quickly.

(With agency inputs)