Overview

• Three Town police arrested Dakshinamurthy, a compounder and OT technician at Deepika Hospital, on Monday and produced him before the media on Tuesday.
• The 22-year-old patient, admitted on September 6 for fever, alleges the technician administered a sedative and assaulted her while she was unconscious.
• A rape case was registered under Section 64(2)(e) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, based on a complaint by the woman's father, and she was sent for medical examination.
• Police sealed the treatment room, collected forensic samples, and seized CCTV footage, according to Commissioner of Police Ghaus Alam.
• The state health department served a notice to the private hospital, and earlier reports had inconsistently identified the accused before police named him as Dakshinamurthy.