Another disturbing case from Calcutta, India: Woman sleeping next to her sick son in hospital is sexually harassed

Another case of sexual harassment has come to light in the Indian city of Kolkata. According to media reports on Sunday (September 15), a 26-year-old woman was sexually harassed by an employee of a government hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal.

An India Today report, citing a complaint filed by the woman, said the incident occurred while the victim was sleeping in the paediatric ward of the Institute of Child Health (ICH) in Kolkata, where her son was admitted.

The complaint states that the accused, a 26-year-old ward assistant at the hospital, entered the children's ward, touched the woman inappropriately and removed her clothes. The man also recorded the incident on his phone.

The nurse was arrested by the police, the India Today report added.

This incident in Kolkata came days after a nurse was molested by a man at a hospital in West Bengal's Birbhum district. The incident occurred when the nurse was injecting a saline solution into the man, who was admitted to the hospital with high fever.

In a complaint, the nurse stated that the patient had not only touched her inappropriately but had also used abusive language.

Both cases in West Bengal occurred a few weeks after a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was found brutally raped and murdered on August 9.

In the latest news on the case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested the former director of the institute, Sandip Ghosh, and Abhijit Mondal, the duty officer of Tala police station.

A report by news agency ANI said Ghosh was arrested for misleading the investigation and his alleged role in destroying the evidence. Mondal, meanwhile, was arrested for delaying the registration of the FIR (First Information Report).

(With contributions from agencies)