Mumbai: A hospital doctor arrested for raping a patient in the intensive care unit allegedly watched pornographic clips stored in his mobile phone before sexually assaulting the woman.
"In her statement, the woman has said Dr Vishal Bane was going through pornographic clips in his cellphone before raping her. We have seized the mobile phone and sent it for analysis at the Forensic Sciences Laboratory at Kalina," said inspector Rajkumar Chaphekar of Vashi police station.
The woman, 35 and a resident of Koparkhairane, was semiconscious when Bane allegedly raped her. Complaining of fatigue and giddiness while attending a Durga Puja ceremony in Sector 15 of Vashi, she was admitted to Lotus Hospital Saturday night. Bane, the resident medical officer, advised she be moved to the ICU for the night as she was shivering and asked her family to wait outside. He allegedly raped her in the early hours of Sunday.
The police said she could understand she was being raped but was so was weak she could neither resist Bane nor raise an alarm.
The next morning, when her husband met her, she told him she had been raped. The family lodged an FIR at Vashi police station and Bane was arrested Sunday afternoon and remanded in police custody till October 25.
Police said preliminary medical reports have confirmed rape.
Bane, a resident of Ghansoli who specialises in Ayurveda, had been employed at the hospital since December. The police are investigating his past. "So far, we have not come across any evidence of past misconduct," Chaphekar said.
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