For Agra doctors, greed comes before duty

Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. Indictment of the accused in cases of rape and sexual assault is primarily dependent on the medical report prepared by Government doctors and it is this report that sends the accused behind bars or sets him free.

But in Agra, the greed for extra cash of some doctors played heavy on their moral duty this week as they played with the life of a gang-raped adolescent girl - first declaring her an adult and a virgin and then vouched for her being nine weeks pregnant.

According to Jagdishpura Police Station official Sanjeev Chauhan, Geeta (name changed) had disappeared from her home about six months back and was recently recovered by the police from Aligarh.

In a recorded statement before the police, Geeta claimed that two local Muslim youth - Tinku Khan and Hanif Khan - had kidnapped her from her home about six month back. She said the youth, one of whom was her neighbour, had raped her for the past six months, first in Agra and then in Aligarh, where she was being held captive.

According to Mr Chauhan, the police acting on the girl's complaint had put Tinku behind bars. However, when the girl was subjected to medical examination by the police in the Lady Lyall Hospital for possible rape, the report was negative and the girl was termed as an adult aged 19 and a virgin, which indicated that the girl had not been kidnapped or raped.

The case could have been easily declared as closed by the police after the medical report. However, the police version of the story was dashed to the ground on Friday, when a local Hindu outfit came to the rescue of Geeta, getting her subjected to another medical checkup in the hands of the same doctors only a couple of days later. This time, the same team of doctors arrived on an entirely different conclusion that the girl was an adolescent aged 14 and that she was eight weeks pregnant.

A private pathological centre of Agra confirmed the report after which, the counsels for the girl have begun demanding the arrest of the remaining culprits. They claim, the culprits belong to separatist organisations and were in possession of a huge arsenal of automatic weapons, that the girl had witnessed while being kept hostage in their house for six months.

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