The district crime department has taken over the investigation into the killing of a younger physician right here just lately by a affected person she was attending to, police stated on Friday. Dr Vandana Das, a home surgeon at Azeezia Medical College Hospital was working on the Kottarakkara taluk hospital as a part of her coaching. She was stabbed to demise by a person introduced there by the police within the wee hours of Wednesday.

“The District Crime Branch will probe the matter now,” a senior district police official informed PTI. The accused, G Sandeep, a college trainer by career is at the moment below judicial custody.

He was dropped at the hospital by police for therapy of a leg damage. He had been introduced there by police after he dialled the emergency quantity 112, claiming his life was in peril. When native police positioned him, he was standing away from his house, surrounded by native residents and his family members and had a wound on his leg and a stick in his hand.

He was taken to the hospital accompanied by his brother-in-law and an area political social gathering chief. During the dressing of his wound, he obtained violent, initially stabbing the politician and the police there after which repeatedly stabbing Das additionally, who couldn’t escape to security. Das, who suffered grievous accidents within the assault, died a number of hours after the incident. The younger physician’s killing created a furore within the state, following which the federal government determined to problem an ordinance to amend the hospital safety regulation.

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