WB: Junior doctor held for rape; remanded for 14 days

Ramkrishna Sarkar, the junior doctor of state-run Bankura Sammilani Medical College Hospital in south Bengal was on Thursday arrested on charge of raping a teenaged deaf and dumb patient three days back.

Sarkar, who was arrested from hospital compound, was later remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by the Chief Judicial Magistrate Chiranjib Bhattacharya under section 376/2D of the Indian Penal Code.

The teenager's family had complained that their daughter had been raped by on-duty Sarkar, who had been attending her on Monday night.

The girl was found lying naked in an unconscious state in the medicine department of the medical college where she was admitted for chest pain, her mother, Mongola Gorai of Saltora area near Bankura town, said in the complaint lodged on Tuesday.

She was taken to Kolkata by police and Health department doctors for forensic tests the next day. The Principal, Bankura Sammilani Medical College Hospital, Manoj Chowdhury said that the police had sought permission to take the teenager to one of the government-owned medical college and hospitals in Kolkata for forensic investigation.