Gang Rape Survivor Made To Wait 12 Hours For Medical Examination: Report

A gang rape survivor in Odisha mentioned she needed to wait in a police van for 12 hours. (Representational)

Keonjhar, Odisha:

A gang rape survivor in Odisha’s Keonjhar district alleged that she needed to wait in a police van for 12 hours for her medical examination.

The 37-year-old lady was taken in a police van to the native hospital on Thursday morning the place medical doctors allegedly refused to conduct her medical examination because the place of incidence of the crime was underneath one other group well being centre.

The police personnel accompanying the lady then took her to the opposite well being centre. She was made to take a seat within the police van as there was no girl physician obtainable to conduct the medical examination reported information company PTI.

The police then took her again to the primary hospital the place the medical doctors at about 9:30 pm of Thursday performed her preliminary examination.

“I used to be advised that the complete medical examination couldn’t be performed through the evening time. Subsequently, I used to be advised to come back on Friday,” the survivor mentioned.

“Nevertheless, the lady lastly received her full medical examination finished on Friday”, the police mentioned.

“The medical doctors referred us to the federal government hospital as there was no girl physician there. We additionally undergo unavoidable issues. It is not that we deliberately delayed the medical examination,” mentioned the Inspector-in-Cost.

The lady’s kinfolk alleged that the police introduced the gang rape survivor to the police station from the federal government hospital, a distance of 40 kilometres at 9 am on Thursday. Nevertheless, lastly the physician attended to her at 9.30 pm.

When contacted, Keonjhar, Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO), Kishore Chandra Prusty’s workplace mentioned he was on go away. All different senior well being division officers refused to touch upon the difficulty.

The lady was gang raped on January 18 when she was coming back from her relative’s home alongside along with her cousin. Three males allegedly forcibly took the lady after assaulting her cousin. They then took turns to rape her, the lady mentioned in her FIR.

The survivor has filed an FIR and an investigation is underneath method. Nobody has been arrested but, the police mentioned.
 

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