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A Bengal doctor was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman patient at Hasnabad in Bengal North 24 Parganas.
The accused, in his mid 40s, reportedly injected the victim with sedatives to make her unconscious and then filmed the sexual assault. He then allegedly extorted Rs 4 lakh from her by threatening to release the footage on social media. The doctor allegedly sexually assaulted her multiple times by blackmailing her with the video, The Times of India reported.
The incident became known after the survivor, and her husband -- who works in Bihar -- decided to lodge an FIR with the Hasnabad police station against the accused -- Nur Alam Sardar -- on Monday evening.
The police arrested him from his residence-cum-clinic subsequently. Police said that the woman's statement in the case was recorded and the accused was produced in court, while investigation into the matter remains on.
Sardar was remanded in police custody for four days. The woman, in her complaint, had alleged that when she went to the doctor for treatment a few days ago while her husband was out of the state, he had tranquilised and raped her.
This news comes even as West Bengal reels from the horrific rape and murder of a junior doctor at the government-run R G Kar Hospital in Kolkata.