Guwahati, June 2: Assam Police have arrested 24 persons in connection with the brutal attack on an on-duty doctor at Covid care centre at Assam’s Hojai district.
The arrested 24 persons include the main perpetrators and conspirators. The arrested persons also include a woman, who was seen in the video of the attack on the doctor that went viral on social media.
24 culprits involved in this barbaric attack have been arrested and the chargesheet will be filed at the earliest.
I am personally monitoring this investigation and I promise that justice will be served. https://t.co/CVgRaEW0di
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) June 2, 2021
Special DGP of Assam police, GP Singh informed the arrest on his Twitter handle.
GP Singh Twitted, “Further action till 0400 Hours on June 2nd- 24 persons including main perpetrators & conspirators have been arrested. This includes the woman seen in the video.”
Further action till 0400 Hours on June 2nd – 24 persons including main perpetrators & conspirators have been arrested. This includes the woman seen in the video. @himantabiswa @CMOfficeAssam @keshab_mahanta @DGPAssamPolice @assampolice
— GP Singh (@gpsinghassam) June 1, 2021
“We would submit a strong charge sheet in shortest possible time and ensure the criminals are brought to justice,” Singh informed.
In a viral video, medical officer Seuj Kumar Senapati, who was on duty at the Udali Model Hospital during the afternoon shift of Tuesday was brutally beaten by a group of people including women on Tuesday. The irate crowd also vandalised the Hospital, broke its windows and the furnitures and medical equipments inside.
According to police sources at Hojai, the incident took place after a COVID-19 patient succumbed to his symptoms allegedly owing to lack of oxygen at Udali in Hojai’s Lanka subdivision. The patient, Giyaz Uddin, a resident of Pipal Pukhuri village within the same health block, died on Tuesday afternoon.
After the incident, an irate crowd gathered and started vandalising the hospital. Most medical officers managed to escape while Senapati had confined himself inside an empty room inside the hospital.
The mob thrashed the doctor brutally before the police reached the spot and with the help of few other locals managed to rescue him.
Senapati has been immediately shifted to another hospital in Nagaon district where he is undergoing treatment.
Dr JA Jayalal, president of the Indian Medical Association, has condemned the incident while representative from the Assam chapter of Assam Medical Service Association (AMSA) have visited the victim at Nagaon and sought the strictest punishment for the culprits.
