Int’l Desk:

A nurse was raped and killed while on her way home near the Uttar Pradesh border from a private hospital in India’s Uttarakhand.

As seen in CCTV footage, she left the hospital on the evening of Jul 30 and took an e-rickshaw from Indra Chowk in Rudrapur but did not reach her rented accommodation.

She lived at the rented home on Kashipur Road in Uttar Pradesh’s Bilaspur with her 11-year-old daughter.

Her sister filed a missing persons report the following day. The Uttar Pradesh police found her body in an empty plot eight days later on Aug 8, nearly 1.5 km away from her house in Dibdiba village.

The police sent the body for post-mortem and formed a team to find the perpetrators. They traced the victim’s stolen mobile phone which led them to a suspect named Dharmendra.

Dharmendra, a daily wage labourer from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from Rajasthan on Wednesday.

A drunk Dharmendra saw the victim, followed her and attacked her while she was about to enter her apartment building, police said.

“He dragged her to the nearby bushes, raped and strangled her using her scarf,” said Manjunath TC, senior superintendent of police, Udham Singh Nagar.

He also stole the nurse’s phone and Rs 3,000 from her purse, the police officer added.

The incident comes amid nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor during her duty hour in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The 31-year-old’s semi-naked body was found in the seminar hall of the government-run hospital last week.

The brutal incident has reignited calls for better safety of doctors at their workplaces. Resident doctors across the country are protesting, demanding an assurance that the Central Healthcare Protection Act would be passed to curb attacks on medical personnel. Source: NDTV