Kanhaiya Kumar, supporters booked for 'assaulting' Patna AIIMS doctor: Cops

JNU students' union former president Kanhaiya Kumar and many of his supporters were booked Monday on charges of assaulting a junior doctor and a security guard of AIIMS here and snatching the doctor's cell phone, an official said.

The First Information Report against Kumar and his supporters was lodged at Phulwarisharif police station in western Patna on a complaint by the association of AIIMS doctors, Phulwarisharif SHO Mohd Qaiser Alam told PTI.

Alam said "the doctors' association said in its complaint that Kanhaiya, along with about 100 others, had visited the hospital Sunday night to meet an old associate admitted there."
Reacting to the episode, RJD MLA and spokesman Bhai Virendra said, "If such an incident has indeed taken place at the hospital, it is deplorable."
JD(U) spokesperson Sanjay Singh said, "This shows the character of the young leader who aspires to graduate from students politics and enter public life."