Two government doctors were arrested and remanded to judicial custody in Chennai for allegedly raping a female colleague at a hotel during COVID-19 quarantine in August earlier this year.
Chennai: Two government doctors were arrested and remanded to judicial custody in Chennai for allegedly raping a female colleague at a hotel during COVID-19 quarantine in August earlier this year.
They were remanded to judicial custody on Thursday, TOI reported. The two doctors have been identified as S Vetriselvan and N Mohanraj.
The doctors barged into the woman’s room when she was alone and sexually assaulted her, police said and added that the woman doctor who went on a long leave after the incident joined back in October.
The female doctor filed a complaint before the city police commissioner on Wednesday. Thereafter the Flower Bazaar police registered a case and arrested the doctors.
Police stated that the CCTV camera footage collected from the hotel shows the two doctors barging into the victim’s room in the middle of the night in August.
first published:Nov. 19, 2021, 4:27 p.m.