MP: Doctors strike work after colleague is molested, robbed

Junior doctors at state-run Hamadia Hospital in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh struck work on Saturday demanding arrest of a man who molested and robbed one of their colleagues.

An unidentified person entered the hostel room of a doctor through the window and molested, threatened and robbed her, MP Junior Doctors Association president Dr Sachet Saxena told PTI.

"If the police does not catch the culprit in 24 hours, we are going to launch a protest across the state," he said.

Saxena said the girls' hostel of Gandhi Medical College attached to Hamadia Hospital did not have CCTVs.

The stir, in which over 300 junior doctors and around 1,000 under-graduates are taking part, has affected services, admitted a hospital official.

Hamadia hospital superintendent Dr AK Shrivastava said authorities were speaking to doctors to end the stir.

Inspector Amresh Bohare of Koh-e-Fiza police station said a case has been registered against an unidentified person under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 458 (house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint) and 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death) of IPC.