Siddha doctor held for sexual advances to nurse

A 27-year-old Siddha doctor has been arrested for allegedly making sexual advances to a nurse and was produced in court, which remanded him to judicial custody, police said today.
The doctor, working in a private hospital in Korattur, had reportedly used inappropriate language and later made advances while they were on night duty on July 27.
The nurse spurned his advances, enraging the doctor, who slapped her following which she reported the incident to the hospital proprietor, police said.
When no action was taken by the hospital, she preferred a complaint with police.
After a preliminary inquiry, a case was registered and the doctor was arrested.

He was produced in a court, which remanded him to judicial custody.

Police did not mention when the doctor was arrested and produced in court.
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Meanwhile, the police have booked around 15 people in
connection with the attack on doctors and ransacking of the hospital.
They were booked under relevant sections of the IPC and the Maharashtra Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property) Act, the police said.
No arrest has been made so far, they added.