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A minor woman was allegedly sexually assaulted within the State Authorities’s SSKM Medical School and Hospital on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) afternoon. The accused was arrested that night and booked underneath the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, in accordance with police.
The accused, Amit Mallick, is a former group D workers member and ward boy. He’s a resident of Dhapa and was arrested and produced in court docket on Thursday (October 23, 2025).
“Following a report from the SSKM Outpost, the Bhowanipore PS contacted the sufferer, and her assertion was recorded, after which the case was filed,” police stated on Thursday.
It’s alleged that Mallick assaulted the minor contained in the SSKM Hospital in a bathroom after luring her away from her dad and mom. The 14-year-old was together with her dad and mom within the out affected person division ready to fulfill a physician.
Nurse attacked by drunk man
In one other assault, a feminine nurse was bodily assaulted by a drunk man inside a Major Well being Heart at Kaijuli Block in Birbhum district’s Mohammad bazar space on Wednesday evening, leaving her severely injured. She was rushed to Suri Tremendous Specialty Hospital, the place she obtained 22 stitches to her head. The accused has been recognized as Rajib Kahar, who has been arrested by the native police.
These repeated incidents have raised questions on safety inside state-run medical amenities.
A number of medical doctors’ boards have condemned the assaults, together with the Affiliation of Well being Service Docs and the Joint Platform of Docs (JPD).
We name for a direct, complete audit of hospital safety protocols throughout all State amenities to stop such atrocities,” an announcement from the JPD stated on Thursday.
A lady was additionally allegedly publicly sexually harassed by a neighborhood strongman in north Kolkata’s Dakhineshwar space on October 21. The survivor stated that when she raised the alarm, the accused bodily assaulted her. She filed a proper criticism with the police, and the accused was arrested on Wednesday.
Sequence of incidents
On Monday (October 20), a feminine physician was assaulted by a affected person’s household on the Uluberia Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Authorities Medical School and Hospital. The accused males, one among them recognized as a police dwelling guard, have been accused of threatening to rape the physician and bodily assaulting her contained in the hospital.
At the start of October, a feminine medical pupil from Odisha was sexually assaulted close to her medical school in Durgapur by a gaggle of males.
In September 2025, a feminine member of the medical workers was raped inside a hospital in Panskura by the power supervisor.
Final yr in 2024, a feminine resident physician in RG Kar Hospital was raped and murdered contained in the hospital, which took the nation by storm, and protests raged in West Bengal for months.
disagreement
The opposition got here down closely on the ruling Trinamool Congress authorities for the spate of assaults on ladies inside medical amenities in October 2025.
CPI(M) State Secretary Mohammad Salim informed The Hindu on Wednesday that such incidents have grow to be “common” in West Bengal and accused the ruling occasion of sheltering offenders.
Nevertheless, Trinamool State Vice-President Jay Prakash Majumdar termed the assaults “a social evil” and stated, “Rape and assault of ladies is a most cancers on society and a nationwide drawback throughout geographies.”
Mr. Salim additionally criticized the ruling occasion for not studying a lesson from the RG Kar rape and homicide and amping up safety measures in State-run hospitals and referred to as it a “failure of the State’s regulation and order system.”
Printed – October 23, 2025 08:57 pm IST