After court order, 8 booked for assaulting woman at Kalwa hosp

A total of eight people, including a hospital's medical officer and a policeman, have been booked for allegedly thrashing a 36-year-old woman and then destroying the crime evidence, an official said on Thursday.

The incident took place in November, 2020 and the case was registered on May 2 this year following directives issued by a local court last month.

In her order passed on April 25, Thane's first class judicial magistrate, B H Parmar, noted that the woman's allegations are supported by CCTV footage and other documents, and directed the Kalwa police to register an offence against eight persons and conducted a probe into the case.

On November 4, 2020, the woman, Shabnam Raine, had gone to the civic-run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa area to get a disability certificate for her son.

A doctor there asked her for the ration card, electricity bill, sale deed of house and other such documents. The woman told the doctor that it was difficult for her to get such documents as she was living in a rented house.

The doctor then allegedly used foul language and abused her in a loud voice, the court noted in the order. The woman tried to make a video recording of the incident on her mobile phone, but the security guards (who are also among the accused) present there snatched her phone. They also allegedly pushed and thrashed the woman, and also touched her inappropriately, the FIR said.

The woman tried to run away from there, but the accused caught hold of her, brought her to the hospital's security cabin and thrashed her again. Later, an official at the Kalwa police station deleted the videos from the woman's phone.