Chandigarh: A nurse, who treated 2012 Delhi gang-rape victim 'Nirbhaya' at Safdarjung hospital, was allegedly sexually assaulted by seven men in Punjab's Mansa district, reports said. The 33-year-old woman was allegedly raped whole night inside a tubewell shed in the Gurna village.
Police have registered a case and arrested two accused - Balwinder Singh Kala and Manwinder - in connection with the case. Strangely, the woman has refused to undergo medical test. Reports claim that the woman knew one of the accused, who is said to be the husband of her ailing friend.
The incident happened after she was picked up by her friend's husband from Budhlada railway station and taken to an isolated place. She was gang-raped there and taken back to the railway station. When she tried to raise an alarm at the station the accused fled.
The alleged rape victim was given a call by her friend’s husband, who asked her to visit Punjab as his wife was in a critical condition. The Delhi based-nurse was part of the team of doctors, who treated 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist, who was brutally gang-raped inside a moving bus in Delhi by six people on December 16, 2012.
'Nirbhaya' was initially admitted at Safdarjung hospital and later shifted to Singapore for further treatment. Unfortunately, due to grievous injuries the 'Delhi brave heart' lost her life in Singapore hospital.
"This is a matter of grave concern. She is not only Nirbhaya's nurse, she is a nurse and is a women and I believe such kind of behaviour towards women is not only deplorable but this is something beyond contemplation. Strictest action should be taken against those who have done this to the good nurse," Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sambit Patra said.
Chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women Barkha Shuklla Singh said that the society is becoming increasingly self-centred, and that it is not only a matter of law, but the entire society must be responsible to cases like rape.
Criticising the society, she further added, “But every person is self-centred. Unless the society awakens it will be difficult to put a stop on it, how far will the law and police stop."
