Chennai: In a shocking incident, women police officials on duty allegedly beat up a pregnant woman at Government Kasturbha Gandhi Hospital here on Saturday after she objected to her husband being abused for not being able to ‘control’ their wailing first child. Besides threatening the husband he would be booked under narcotics case, the women cops forced the Tirupathi-based family to leave the hospital even as the treatment was underway.
The woman developed critical problems on the way to Tirupathi and was admitted in Sri Ramchandra Medical College (SRMC). Thirty one-year-old Muthambikai, a second-year law student from Tirupathi, had come to Chennai along with her husband and her two-year-old child on Friday evening to treat her high blood pressure and other discomforts. “The women cops at the hospital shouted at me saying our child was creating nuisance and it disturbed their chatting. When my wife tried to intervene, she was beaten up”, husband Tamilarasan told Deccan Chronicle. “The cordial impression I had on Tamilians is now lost. How could they ill-treat a pregnant woman? Adding to it, they threatened us saying I would be booked under Ganja case,” he said.
Assistant commissioner of police (Triplicane) Muthuvelpandian when contacted said that the woman lost her cool after the doctor asked her to keep her child calm when her admission was recorded. “The pregnant woman abused the doctor in full public view, and the doctor alerted the police outpost. The duty police questioned the woman and her husband why they abused the doctor,” he said.
Asked why the cops prevented media persons and TV crews from covering the unpleasant incident, the ACP maintained that the police posted at the hospital outpost were only acting at the behest of the duty doctors. However, TV visuals of the couple falling at the feet of a senior police officer pleading for mercy spoke a million words.
