A youth was made to do sit-ups, confess and apologise for allegedly assaulting a doctor at the VSS Medical College and Hospital at Burla. A video of the incident which took place on Sunday went viral on social media on Monday.
When three youth attacked Dr Acharya Suryakanta Pattajoshi, junior doctors and others present overpowered them and handed them over to police at the outpost in the hospital campus. “Two persons involved in the incident were arrested last night. The video has now come to our notice. A detailed probe is underway. I can only comment after receipt of the inquiry report,” said Sambalpur SP Kanwar Bishal Singh.
Junior Doctors’ Association president Sanjeev Mishra said, “Three miscreants attacked a neurosurgeon while he was heading towards the operation theatre. One of the attackers’ relative was admitted to a private hospital and they wanted the doctor to visit there. When he expressed his inability, he was attacked by the trio.”
The assailants wanted Dr Pattajoshi to see the patient admitted to the Samaleswari Nursing Home. The patient is said to be the father of one of the attackers and was previously undergoing treatment under Dr Pattajoshi. The trio was beaten up; their shirts were torn and they were made to do sit-ups. One of them was forced to hold his ears.