Survivor within the Kozhikode MCH ICU sexual assault case staging a protest in entrance of the workplace of the District Police Chief (Kozhikode Metropolis) on Friday demanding a replica of the investigation report on her grievance towards a gynaecologist within the hospital.
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The survivor within the Kozhikode Medical School Hospital ICU sexual assault case has accomplished two days of protest in entrance of the workplace of the District Police Chief (Kozhikode Metropolis) demanding a replica of the police investigation report on her grievance towards a gynaecologist. Nevertheless, her plea stays unheard.
She has been staging a sit-in outdoors the gate within the scorching solar together with a number of human rights activists as her demand below the Proper to Info Act was additionally denied, on the grounds that the case was sub judice. “I’ll proceed my protest till I get a replica of the report”, she informed The Hindu.
The lady had been allegedly sexually assaulted by an attender within the ICU on March 18, 2023, when she was below sedation following a thyroid surgical procedure. The survivor has alleged that the gynaecologist, who had recorded her assertion on the incident, didn’t furnish it utterly earlier than the police and the interior investigation panel. Following her formal grievance, an investigation was held below the aegis of Superintendent of Police Okay. Sudarshan. Nevertheless, the investigation report said that her allegation was baseless. She is demanding a replica of the stated report.
In the meantime, District Police Chief (Kozhikode Metropolis) Rajpal Meena expressed his helplessness within the case.
“The case she is referring to is sub judice. I’m not legally entitled handy over the investigation report back to her,” he stated, including that she may strategy the Chief Info Commissioner on the problem.
Nevertheless, the survivor has challenged the declare. “The case I’ve filed is towards the perpetrator and 5 others who tried to threaten me. There isn’t any case towards the gynaecologist. Then how can it’s sub judice?” she requested.
