DOCTOR COUPLE ON THEIR WAY TO DEHRADUN ATTACKED ON DME

GHAZIABAD: A doctor couple on way to their home town in Uttarakhand was allegedly attacked and injured by unidentified robbers on the Delhi Meerut Expressway (DME) late Sunday night (May 1).

According to police, Dr Kumar Gaurav Sharma, a cardiologist at a hospital in Dehradun and his wife Dr Ritu Sharma, returned from Mauritius and had taken the expressway to reach Dehradun on May 1. Their car broke down around 3-5km ahead of the toll plaza at Bhojpur around 11.45pm on May 1.

“The car developed a snag and we called our friends for help. While we were standing on one side of the road, two bikers came and asked for directions to Bareilly. I told them to use Google maps as I had no idea about the location. After a couple of minutes, three people arrived with sticks from nearby fields and attacked us. We put up resistance and fled. Thereafter, we called police for help...,” Gaurav Sharma said in his complaint to the police.

Later, a friend of the doctor arrived and took them to a hospital in Meerut, where the woman was found to have sustained a fracture in her hand. The couple later travelled to Hyderabad where Dr Ritu Sharma underwent a surgery for the fracture.

Based on Dr Sharma’s complaint, Ghaziabad police registered an FIR under section 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery) of the IPC at Bhojpur police station on Tuesday night.

“When the police reached approached the couple soon after the incident, they were not ready to give a police complaint. Later, when we contacted them, they gave us a written complaint through email, on the basis of which we lodged an FIR at Bhojpur police station. We are investigating the case from all angles and will scan the footage of the CCTV cameras installed across the expressway,” said Iraj Raja, superintendent of police (rural).