Uttarakhand Nurse: A 28-year-old laborer from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested in Rajasthan for allegedly raping and killing a 33-year-old nurse who had gone missing from Rudrapur last month. She was working at a private hospital located in Udham Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Her body was found in her village located in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.

The nurse’s sister filed a missing person complaint at the Rudrapur police station on July 31, according to Manjunath TC, Senior Superintendent of Police, Udham Singh Nagar. Her body was found in an empty plot one week later. A case has been registered in this regard against Dharmendra Kumar of Bareilly for sexually assaulting and killing the nurse. The police said that after her shift in the hospital, the nurse was going home when Kumar stopped her on the way.

He said that the case of the missing person has been received by the office on July 30, but they indistinctively came to know that the nurse reached her village in Uttar Pradesh before being attacked. On August 8, he said, they had the information that the body of a missing nurse was found in bushes, and the identity was matched.

The police have also claimed that the accused, a drug addict who was not known to the nurse, intercepted her because she was traveling alone. Though she put up a struggle, the accused overpowered her, sexually assaulted her, and then strangled her. He picked up her belongings and fled.

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Suspect confession for the rape crime

The police recovered the victim’s mobile phone in Rajasthan and, based on the CCTV footage, zeroed in on the accused. Though belonging to Bareilly, he was working as a daily wage laborer in Udham Singh Nagar, where the nurse’s hospital was located. He was arrested in Rajasthan.

The case was brought to light barely a week after a young doctor was brutally raped and murdered in West Bengal. The accused, in interrogation, admitted to raping the nurse the night of July 31 and later strangling her with her own scarf, further hitting her head with a brick. He then fled after having stolen Rs 3,000 and her mobile.

SSP Manjunath has been quoted as saying, ‘We are in the process of checking if the accused has any previous criminal history.’

House surgeon targeted at Coimbatore hospital 

Just days after a trainee doctor was raped and brutally killed in Kolkata, a 23-year-old man allegedly tried to molest a female house surgeon at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. The incident occurred around 8:30 PM when the suspect, Mayank Galar from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, allegedly attempted to molest the surgeon in the two-wheeler parking area.

According to a report the accused stripped himself in an attempt to molest the doctor, but she managed to push him away and ran to her hostel, while he fled the scene. The suspect was later apprehended and handed over to the police when he visited the casualty ward around 1 AM. Following the incident, house surgeons assembled on campus and only returned to their hostels after the Resident Medical Officer assured them that legal action would be taken against the accused.

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