Doctor held for 'raping' compounder in Kalyan

The police have arrested a doctor from Kalyan for allegedly raping a 19-year-old girl assisting him in his clinic. According to investigators, the accused was upset when the victim refused to work for him after landing a job in a multinational bank. "On her last day at the clinic on Saturday, Jitendra Mishra (26) took the teen to his flat and raped her," a police officer said.

The victim in her complaint said that Mishra convinced her to accompany him to his new flat at Vilas Apartments in Chakkni Naka after claiming that a woman patient had to be administered first-aid.

"Mishra shut the clinic in the afternoon and asked me to come along with him, but I got a shock when I found the house empty. Mishra then locked the door and forced himself upon me. He then warned me against reporting the matter to anyone and threatened to tarnish my image," the girl told the cops.

"The girl returned to her house after the incident but was forced to stay mum as her family members were out of town. Also, she was too frightened to confide in anyone else. The horror came to light after the teen narrated the entire incident to her parents after they returned on Monday," Manpada police inspector D Pandhare said.

The victim's father, who lodged a complaint, said that his daughter had been employed as a nurse in a hospital before she joined Mishra's clinic, which was in the neighbourhood, as a compounder."After the complaint was lodged, we arrested Mishra from his residence on Monday night. We produced him in court where the judge remanded him in custody till February 22," Manpada police inspector Dattatre Pandhare said.