Allowed by constables to drive down to the police station in his own car, the doctor uses the opportunity to go on the run.
On Friday, the 27-year-old patient, who is suffering from tuberculosis, visited Dr Rustom Sonawala at his clinic on 14th Road in Khar. Speaking to Mumbai Mirror, the patient’s husband said, “I took my wife to Dr Sonawala’s clinic on Friday, and after meeting him he asked me to wait outside. My wife came out after more than 40 minutes, and when we reached Khar Railway Station she told me that Dr Sonawala had raped her.”
“She told me that the doctor gagged her, and then forced himself on her. I didn’t know what to do, I approached the police,” he said. He added that he and his wife were made to sit at Khar police station for the entire night, and the victim was taken for medical check up at Nair Hospital on Saturday morning.
Three police constables were sent to Dr Sonawala’s residence at Five Gardens, Wadala, on Saturday morning to summon him to the police station so that his statement could be recorded. Sonawala convinced the constables to let him come to the police station in his car, with two of them accompanying him. Sonawala fled while they were mid way to Khar police station from Wadala, but the Khar police were not divulging details on what transpired in the car.
The husband has accused the constables of allowing the doctor to flee. “How can a person flee when there are cops with him in the car?” he poignantly asks. “We had not put the doctor under arrest and he was only called for recording his statement. I have asked the senior police inspector to give a report regarding the incident,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (west region) Vishwas Nangre Patil.
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Kiran Kadri-yavare, neev baradiro headline tiraga vodi. Neeva court? Neeva judge? 🙂 Dayavittu ‘Rapist’ pada tegedu, ‘Rape-accused’ haaki. Report maadi, nimma hakku. Tappu report maadbedi.
Nimma articles sada voduva – Sanjay
Thanks for reading the article… pls see the update too…
Quit the “Sensationlism” and get into “Journalism”.
Yes, sensational journalism is a menace to the society. If you see this specific news was highlighted in all the leading newspapers. So let us hope that readers like you bring in a change. And maybe in future journalist may refrain from putting in to account their own perceptions…
Secondly, there is an update too just in case you are interested….
this a completely rubbish story… i know dr soonawala and he is a decent honest dedicated doctor who has been accused because of some other personal issues, and for your information he had been treating the husband and cured him from tb ,, ho ungrateful can people be and how easily they can be bought to say over a few thousand rupees… and how can he be accused and called a rapist till anything is proven.. he is my doc and i know him very well .
IS THIS A JOKE , HOW CAN YOUR ARTICLE BE TITLED AS “RAPIST DR.”. YOU CANNOT TARNISH SOMEONE’S NAME WITHOUT ANY SOLID PROOF….THIS IS ALWAYS THE CASE THE MEDIA LOVES TO SENSATIONALISE EVERYTHING RATHER THAN WAITING FOR THE MEDICAL REPORTS CONFIRMING IF THIS IN FACT WAS A RAPE OR NOT
I don’t seem to understand how the accused can be termed a ‘rapist’ if none of the accusations have been proven as of yet.