Kota police: Five arrested for attacking patient’s attendant in hospital

KOTA: City police on Monday arrested five persons, including two women, for attacking an attendant of a patient in orthopaedic ward of Kota’s Maharao Bheem Singh hospital under Nayapura police station.
The accused on Sunday night, following a brawl over dirt on bed sheet, lashed attack with knife on an 18-year-old youth attending his father in the ward.
The incident sent a wave of panic throughout the hospital building and pinpointed security loopholes in the division’s largest hospital.
Taking action on the report under Sections 143 and 307 of IPC filed by Sidharth Sharma, a resident of Jawahar Nagar area of the city, police arrested Sahil, 24, Shakir, 19, Shaharukh Khan, 20, Rubina, 28 and Shayra, 40, all residents of Kota city, for attacking the complainant with knife while he was attending his ailing father, Kota city SP Vikas Pathak said.
The accused, who had visited the hospital to attend their relative in the ward, attacked Sidharth following a brawl over bed sheet, he added.