Hospital technician arrested in Gurugram flight attendant sexual assault case

NEW DELHI: A hospital technician was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 46-year-old flight attendant who was on a ventilator in Gurugram’s Medanta Hospital. Gurugram Police confirmed the arrest on Friday.
The accused, identified as Deepak (25), is a resident of Muzaffarpur in Bihar and had been working at the hospital for the past five months. He was employed as a technician after completing a degree in Operation Theatre Technology from a private university in Gurugram.
“On 14th April, we received a complaint regarding sexual assault at a private hospital. FIR was registered by the police in connection with the case. A special investigation team was formed to investigate the case. The accused Deepak, a resident of Muzaffarpur, has been arrested. Further investigation is underway. The accused was working at the hospital for the past five months as a technician,” said Gurugram DCP Arpit Jain.
Police said the man was identified after scrutinising footage from over 800 CCTV cameras and questioning more than 50 hospital staff and doctors. Deepak has allegedly confessed to the crime and is set to be produced in court on Saturday.
According to the FIR, the woman was admitted to the ICU at Medanta Hospital on April 5 and was on a ventilator. She alleged that the assault took place the following night, April 6, in the ICU room in the presence of two nurses, neither of whom intervened.
The complainant, in a detailed statement, claimed she was semi-conscious during the incident but could hear everything. She alleged that the technician digitally raped her under the pretext of checking her waistband, and later covered her with a sheet up to her nose.
Medanta Hospital has said it is fully cooperating with the police. "All relevant documents, including the hospital’s CCTV camera footage of the time period in question, have been given to the Gurugram police,” said Dr Sanjay Durani, Medical Superintendent of Medanta. He added that no allegations have been substantiated so far.