Overview

• A Solan court on Saturday ordered five days of police custody for Ram Kumar Bindal, 81, accused of assaulting a 25-year-old during a clinic visit on October 7.
• The Ayurveda practitioner was hospitalized with chest pain after Friday’s arrest, and investigators were permitted to question him in the ward under medical supervision.
• An FIR at the women’s police station cites BNS Sections 64 (rape) and 68 (sexual intercourse by a person in authority) based on the complaint filed October 8.
• Police say the survivor’s statement was recorded before a magistrate, a forensic team collected samples and technical evidence, and the clinic register page for October 7 was found torn.
• BJP leaders call the case politically motivated, while the Congress women’s wing seeks protection for the survivor and presses the state party chief to resign.