A shocking incident happened in Delhi last night when a 55-year-old doctor was shot dead at a private hospital in the Jaitpur area, just less than two months after the rape-murder case in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
What happened in Delhi’s Jaitpur area?
Briefing about this shooting incident, the staff at Nima Hospital told the media that two teenagers reached the hospital late at night on October 2. One of them asked for a change of dressing for his injury in his toe. The night before, the teenager was treated at the hospital. After the dressing was done, the two teens said they wanted a prescription and went to Dr Javid Akhtar’s cabin, a practitioner of Unani Medicine.
Just minutes later, the nursing staff, Gajala Parveen and Md Kamil, heard a gunshot. They rushed to the doctor’s cabin and found him drenched in blood coming out of his head.
Are the suspect teenagers, who shot the doctor dead?
The hospital staff said the suspects could be 16 to 17 years old.
The police said that it appears to be a case of targeted killing and the assailants’ visit the previous night could have been for a recce.
Another doctor was killed on duty
Notably, this doctor-killing incident comes less than two months after Kolkata’s horrific rape-murder case, in which a trainee doctor was brutally raped and murdered at a state-run hospital, leading to a massive outrage nationwide by the doctors demanding the safety of healthcare staff on duty.
As per the aftermath of the Kolkata horror and the doctors’ protest, the Supreme Court has set up a National Task Force to recommend steps to ensure the safety of the doctors on duty.
