Sexual harassment of a patient's wife: Helper arrested, ambulance driver still at large

“The 21-year-old man named Rishabh Singh, a resident of Ayodhya, was nabbed at the Matiyari border post in Lucknow by a police team which received a tip-off about the location of the said ambulance,” said Abhijith R Shankar, DCP North, adding that the ambulance was also seized. “The main accused and driver of the said ambulance, Sarju Tiwari, is still at large and three teams have been formed to nab him,” the DCP said.

“The ambulance driver and his helper from Lucknow's Ghazipur area sexually assaulted the patient's wife while he was being taken to Siddharth Nagar district. When her husband tried to resist, he was thrown out of the vehicle and his oxygen mask was snatched from him, leading to his death. The woman's brother, who was also in the vehicle, was locked in the front cabin as the men locked him there. The men had also looted ₹10,000 and jewelry from the victim,” police said.

The incident took place on August 29 when the vehicle was in Basti district. The two were booked for intentional killing, using force on a woman with intent to outrage her modesty, false imprisonment and robbery. The husband died at Gorakhpur Medical College on August 30 at around 9 pm.