The Aam Aadmi Party has blasted the BJP and Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor for shielding a sexual predator while punishing the victim. Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has charged the BJP with turning a blind eye to justice in a shocking case involving a female doctor who was allegedly assaulted by the MS in the hospital, highlighting that the LG not only protected the accused but targeted the victim instead.
Despite the internal inquiry confirming the abuse, no action has been taken, prompting the AAP to demand answers from the BJP and PM Modi: Is the LG’s role to shield those who exploit women?
Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh shared a heartbreaking incident from a Delhi Hospital. He stated, “For the past one and a half years, a female doctor in Delhi has been subjected to sexual harassment, and despite repeated complaints, no action has been taken against the Medical Superintendent (MS) responsible. Instead, an investigation has been launched against the victim.”
Highlighting how shocking it is, he said that perhaps this is why PM Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have given the LG the authority to transfer, post, and take action, so that those who harass women can be protected. This is exactly what Delhi’s LG is doing.
”A female doctor at a Delhi government hospital has faced ongoing sexual harassment from her MS. Despite this, the LG and the officials from the Health Department, who received the complaint, did not take any action. The doctor lodged a complaint against her MS,” added the AAP MP.
“She tried to meet Delhi’s Health Secretary, Deepak Kumar, dozens of times to complain about the same,” further added Sanjay Singh highlighting the struggle of the Doctor. He said that in October 2023, she filed her complaint, and it took four months of suffering indignities before an internal committee was finally formed, with the Health Secretary repeatedly refusing to meet her.
The senior AAP leader stated that the MS, against whom an FIR should have been filed and who should have been arrested, faced no action. It took four long months of facing bad luck to set up an internal committee to investigate the case, and even then, by March, they had started investigating the same woman who had provided all the evidence against the MS.
Highlighting how much of a mental torture it was on the complainant, Sanjay Singh further stated, “The woman doctor, however, did not bow down. She presented all the proof to the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC), and by May 2024, all her accusations against the MS for sexually harassing her were found to be true. That MS should have been arrested and an F.I.R. must have been filed. But instead of arresting the MS, Delhi’s LG, appointed by the PM to protect such people, took no action even till today.”
Angry at the handling of this case, the AAP MP said, “I want to ask the BJP and PM Modi if they have granted their LG the authority to transfer and post officials so that they can protect those who harass women. Is that why Deepak Kumar is the Health Secretary, so that women doctors’ complaints go unheard for months? So that he can launch an investigation on the complainant?”
Sanjay Singh said to the LG, “do you want to repeat the Kolkata incident in Delhi? Are you waiting for a similar case in Delhi? The MS, who has been accused by not one, but many female doctors, is being protected by the LG and the Health Secretary. These are the people the BJP, the Prime Minister, and Amit Shah have appointed here.”
The senior AAP leader further said that not only that, all Supreme Court rules were blown up. When the female doctor complained, she was transferred, and it was written in her transfer order that she was being transferred because she accused her MS of sexual harassment. This publicly humiliated her, as everyone in the new hospital knew her as the doctor who had faced sexual harassment.
Shocked at the depth of this case, Sanjay Singh said, “For such a long time, the MS had been harassing a female doctor at the hospital. Deepak Kumar, the Health Secretary, should be fired. The MS, whose actions have been proven true, should be arrested immediately. And if Delhi’s LG has even a shred of morality, he should resign from his position.”
“How did the LG stay silent for a year on cases of female doctors being harassed. Does the LG want to repeat Kolkata in Delhi? The LG, the BJP, and the PM who appointed him, must answer for this,” he concluded.
