9 given three years each for assaulting doctor
Hindustan TimesA local court in Fatehabad on Wednesday sentenced nine persons to three years of imprisonment each for kidnapping, stripping and parading a private hospital doctor in the city after a rape case was filed against him in 2017. The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Rajiv convicted a local politician Rajendra Chaudhary Kaka, ex-councillor Subhash Papiya, Baljeet Bitta, Krishan Kumar, Anil Kumar, Prem Sagar, Gurmeet Mita, Subhash Royal, Virender and Raman Kumar. Case against the doctor According to the rape victim’s mother, her daughter was suffering from a high fever in 2017, and she took her to Dr Jindal’s private hospital in Fatehabad. Hours after the incident came to light, on October 28, 2017, a group stormed Dr Jindal’s hospital, vandalised property, dragged him out, beat him, stripped him and blackened his face before parading him through the city.
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