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65-year-old doctor held for allegedly 'touching' woman

Updated on: 31 March,2019 04:30 PM IST  | 
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The woman protested, left the clinic and lodged a complaint with the all-woman police, who registered a case under section 354 (violence against women and atrocities with intent to outrage her modesty) and arrested him

65-year-old doctor held for allegedly 'touching' woman

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Coimbatore: A 65-year-old doctor was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making sexual advances to a woman who visited his clinic along with her ailing mother, police said here."


The 26-year-old woman had taken her mother to the kidney specialist, who instead of examining the mother, allegedly began to touch the younger woman inappropriately and asked whether her mother felt any pain at the spots he touched, the police said.


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The woman protested, left the clinic and lodged a complaint with the all-woman police, who registered a case under section 354 (violence against women and atrocities with intent to outrage her modesty) and arrested him.

In another incident, a 10-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by a boy at a village in Palghar district of Maharashtra. The boy, 12, was booked following a complaint lodged by the girl's parents, police said. "Both the minors are neighbours. As per the complaint, the boy had been raping the girl since the last four months," an official of Mokhada police station said.

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A few days back, the girl complained of stomach pain. When her parents took her for a medical checkup, doctors told them that she was pregnant. When her parents asked her, she told them what had happened. Thereafter, they filed a complaint against the boy, the official said. The boy was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), he added. According to police, the boy has not been detained yet and investigation into the case is on.

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With inputs from PTI

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