In Rawalpindi, one arrested for alleged voyeuristic recording of patient

Case registered after a woman was recorded while collecting a sample in RHC stall

RAWALPINDI: The Rawat police have arrested a suspect for allegedly recording a patient as she went to store medical samples at a Rural Health Centre (RHC) in Bagga Sheikhan on Sunday.

The victim’s father, R*, complained to the police that his daughter, T*, went to the related health centre for a checkup.

There, the laboratory staffers, including Amir Mehmood and Farah, asked the victim to provide samples of her urine for testing and directed her to the RHC’s toilet stall.

As she was busy doing so, T* noticed a mobile phone placed on top of the stall’s wall, recoding her.

Infuriated, she stormed out and inquired about the mobile phone. A quarrel ensued between her and the staff of the lab. The victim then left the health centre but kept the mobile.

However, as she made her way home, T* was allegedly intercepted by a man identified as Mehmood and his two accomplices who were riding in a car. The suspects disembarked from the vehicle and allegedly started assaulting her. The suspects managed to snatch the mobile from the victim’s possession and fled.

The victim narrated the entire incident before her family after which her father called the doctor deployed at the related health facility.

When the doctor arrived at the centre along with the victim’s family, they found the establishment empty save for the Farah who was working at the polio counter. When asked about the incident, she dismissed it as a trivial incident. But when the family insisted, she threatened the family unless they left.

R then approached the police and complained. The police subsequently arrested the main suspect, Mehmood.

A senior police official at the Rawat police station said that the victim was directed towards a stall which is dedicated for patients to collect samples.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 23^rd, 2019.