Medical officer assaulted by son of ex-cop allege threats, police laxity in arresting accused in Ambala

AMBALA: A medical officer appointed at Baldev Nagar urban primary health center (UPHC) in Ambala City has alleged threats and pressure from accused persons, in a case of assault with him while on duty.
Dr Rahul Mittal had lodged a complaint with Ambala City police on September 16, following which, a first information report (FIR) was registered against two accused Ravi Kaushik and his accomplice Deepak, under Section 351 (3) (severe form of criminal intimidation), 351 (2) (criminal intimidation), 3(5) (common intention), 221 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 132 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of duty), and 121 (1) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Baldev Nagar police station.
The police arrested Deepak, while the arrest of main accused Ravi is still pending as he is absconding.
Dr Rahul said, “I am under continuous threat and pressure from the family of accused Ravi Kaushik, to reach a compromise in this case. The police have not arrested him till now.”
Baldev Nagar police station house officer (SHO) inspector Sunil Dutt said that they are making efforts to arrest the accused Ravi and his phone is switched off besides he is absconding.
“We got busy in another case related to four young girls who went missing. We are following up the case and the accused will be arrested soon”, said Baldev Nagar SHO.
In his police complaint, Dr Rahul said accused Ravi and his accomplice assaulted him when he was on duty after he refused to write medicine for a kid who was not accompanying the former.
“As per my duty, I prescribed medicine to the accused and his child who was accompanying him. Thereafter, the accused asked me to write medicine for another child not accompanying him. I humbly told the accused to bring the child along so that proper prescription can be written after due examination of the kid. This triggered the accused and he started verbally abusing me. Later, the accused along with his two accomplices slapped me and manhandled me on the main road of Baldev Nagar”, said Dr Rahul.