Bengaluru: Four drunk men threaten, attack hospital employees

Bengaluru: After policemen, it seems to be the turn of doctors to get assaulted by drunk men, brought to hospitals for medical checkup by the police.

On Sunday night, Yeshwanthpur law and order police picked up four men for creating nuisance after drinking. When they were brought to K.C. General Hospital for medical examination, they not only refused to cooperate, but also threatened and abused the doctors and other staff at the hospital with filthy language. They also manhandled one of the housekeeping staffers. The Malleswaram police, who rushed to the hospital, booked them for obstructing government servants from carrying out their duties and remanded them to custody.

The drunk men, Sunil, Amith, Nithin, and Rajesh, all aged between 23 and 25, work as contract employees with a telecom company. They were spotted by the police creating nuisance near Murali Gokula Theatre in Mathikere around 12.30 am on Monday. The cops bundled them into a Hoysala jeep and brought them to K.C. General Hospital in Malleswaram for blood alcohol examination.

When the duty doctor, Dr Sanjeev Kumar, was testing them, one of the four threatened him with dire consequences and even broke the sheet of glass on the doctor’s table by leaning over it. The four trouble-makers roughed up a housekeeping employee, who rushed to the help of the doctor. There were three house surgeons, one staff nurse, two ward boys and a housekeeping staff at the casualty department when the incident occurred.

Even as the four men went on the rampage, the police refused to intervene and help the hapless hospital staff. An eyewitness at the hospital said that of the four men, three were heavily built and were inebriated. The entire incident was captured on the hospital’s CCTV camera. After Dr Kumar alerted the Malleswaram police, they rushed to the hospital and took the four men to the police station. The police registered a case under IPC 353 – obstructing a public servant from discharging his/ her duties. Yeshwanthpur police had also registered a petty case of nuisance against them. The four were later produced before a magistrate, who remanded them to judicial custody.

We became soft targets for them: Doctor
“The four men were drunk heavily. They were not only abusing us, but also the cops. As they did not risk attacking the men in uniforms, they turned to soft targets, us. All the four threatened and even roughed up one of our staff. The incident occurred around 1.45 am while we were in our night shift,” said Dr. Sanjeev Kumar.