Bhavnagar, Gujarat: A doctor was assaulted for instructing patients relative to remove footwear before entering emergency room of the hospital. The incident happened at Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district. It is being alleged the three accused who assaulted the doctor came at Shreya Hospital in Sihore town with a woman who had suffered a head injury. When the doctor asked the three accused not to enter the emergency room with footwear and remove the footwear they started abusing the doctor and the nursing staff. The FIR lodged said “When they (accused) entered the emergency room, the doctor asked them to remove footwear. However, they began abusing him and the nursing staff.” “The attack left Dr Jaideepsinh Gohil, 33, with injuries. Medicines and other equipment in the room were damaged. The accused also threatened to kill the doctor,” according to the FIR.
The men – Hiren Dangar, Bhavdeep Dangar, Kaushik Kuvadiya – have been arrested and booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the new nationwide penal code. Some of the sections are: 115 (2) (act with the intention of causing hurt to any person), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 351 (3) (criminal intimidation).