Bihar: Bhagalpur private hospital staff jailed for harassing woman

BHAGALPUR: The police lodged an FIR against a private hospital employee, Jyoti Kumar, and arrested him on Tuesday evening in connection with the sexual harassment of Ruchi Raushan during the treatment of her husband Raushan Chandra Das there.
Bhagalpur SSP Natasha Gudia had formed a three-member probe team , which contacted the victim over the phone in Patna and registered an FIR at Bhagalpur Mahila Thana.The Bhagalpur SSP, when contacted, said Jyoti was produced at the Bhagalpur court and forwarded to jail. Further investigation is underway, the SSP added.
Raushan, who was later shifted to a private hospital in Patna, succumbed to Covid-19 infection. The woman had come to her mother’s place at Kahalgaon on Holi and her husband got infected with coronavirus.
Several videos of Ruchi, alleging her molestation and harassment at the Bhagalpur hospital and misbehaviour at another private hospital in Patna besides negligence in treatment of her husband, had gone viral on social media on Monday.
When contacted on Wednesday, the woman sent a video urging the owners to investigate the mismanagement at their respective private hospitals and indulgence of the employees in corrupt practices.
She said her fight is against the employees and hospitals management who damage the system.
In her heartbreaking video, Ruchi alleged that some other videos explaining the excuse of private hospitals were released today. She urged the police and hospital management to trust her statement only as she is the eyewitness and it is she who had to suffer the ordeal.
Demanding an in-depth inquiry by the hospital authorities/owners and the state government so that she gets justice, Ruchi said she stands by her statements given to the media.