CHENNAI: Kilpauk police have arrested Sathish Kumar (24) of Ranipet for allegedly sexually harassing a 50-year-old female patient after barging into the female ward at the Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital late Sunday night.
Sathish was caught by the patients’ attendees and hospital staff, and was handed over to the police. Police sources said that he was in an inebriated state.
Sathish had come to the city looking for a job and had slept in the hospital premises for a few days. On Sunday night, he got drunk and entered the female ward and attempted to misbehave with a woman. When she started yelling, others woke up and caught him.
Kilpauk police arrested Sathish, was produced before a magistrate and remanded to judicial custody. The incident attracted criticism from opposition parties. Leader of Opposition, Edappadi K Palaniswami took to his social media and condemned the ruling government for the security lapse.
In a post, he referred to the sexual assault of the Anna University student and said there had been yet another incident inside a GH in Chennai, exposing that there is no safety for women under the “Stalin-model government. The CM spoke about women’s safety in the Assembly, and I wonder what he will say now.”
Urging stringent action against the offender at Kilpauk GH, Palaniswami said that the CM is annoyed when we ask him, ‘Who is that sir?’ He pointed out the AIADMK’s ‘Save Our Daughters’ campaign following the student’s sexual assault at Anna University. “More ‘sirs’ are being created as more ‘sirs’ are being protected in the present regime,” he claimed.