16 November,2023 10:15 AM IST | Thane | mid-day online correspondent
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An unidentified man allegedly attacked a 34-year-old doctor at his clinic in Thane over a dispute.
According to the police official, the man also damaged the doctor's car.
"The man walked into the doctor's clinic at Kausa in Mumbra area on November 13 evening when he was examining a patient," the police stated.
Quoting the doctor's complaint, the police official from Mumbra police station said, "The attacker carried a box in his hand, and he said that he had brought sweets for the doctor. The accused then said he had given talaq to his wife and claimed the doctor had an affair with her."
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"The man allegedly hit the doctor on his back, then ran out of the clinic and also attacked the doctor's car," the complaint stated.
A case was registered on Wednesday against the unidentified culprit under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 427 (mischief causing damage), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) and under the Maharashtra Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage or Loss to Property).
"A probe was on into the case," the police said.
Meanwhile, in Thane, the Government Railway Police (GRP) has arrested two loan recovery agents from Assam for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 34-year-old woman. "Laxana Narendra Yadav allegedly ended her life by jumping in front of a train at Diva on July 6," senior inspector Pandhari Kande said on Wednesday.
(with inputs from PTI)