Doctor Arrested for Misconduct with IPS Officer’s Wife in Hyderabad Pub

Hyderabad: Gachibowli police registered a case against a doctor for inappropriately touching the wife of an IPS officer at a pub in Madinaguda in the Financial District. The incident, which was reported on September 20, came into light on Monday.

The IPS officer had gone to the washroom at the time of the incident. When he returned, his wife complained to him that a man who was at an adjacent table had misbehaved with her, sources disclosed.

Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, the police officer said, “Initially I ignored it assuming that he might have accidentally touched my wife. But my wife insisted and I checked with the CCTV footage and saw the man misbehaving with my wife. I called the Gachibowli police.”

The accused was a doctor, and was with a group of people partying separately.

The Gachibowli police, who reached the pub within a few minutes and took the doctor into custody and detained him in the police station, sources said.

However the doctor maintained before the police that he was drunk and accidentally touched the victim, police sources disclosed. The police put the doctor through a breathalyser test, which confirmed that he was in a drunken state.

Police reportedly made the doctor sit in the police station till he sobered up the following day.

After going through the CCTV cameras in the pub and recording the manager’s statement, which they took as a complaint against the doctor, the police released him.

Gachibowli inspector S. Anjaneyulu, said “I was on leave on that day. Our senior officers are investigating the case”.

Ch. Sreekanth, ACP Madhapur, did not respond to calls made by this correspondent.

However, police sources said out that a case under Section 79 of BNS, which criminalises actions intended to insult a woman’s modesty, has been registered against the doctor, who was also served a notice under section 35 of BNS.