India, Oct. 21 -- A home guard volunteer and his associates allegedly attacked and threatened a junior doctor with sexual assault at the Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Government Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal's Howrah district on Monday evening. The main accused, Babulal, was arrested along with one of his associates.

A police officer said the incident happened when around a dozen people went to the hospital's maternity ward with a pregnant woman and demanded that the junior doctor on duty examine her. "According to the complainant, the home guard volunteer claimed to be a police officer. An investigation is on."

The complainant, a senior resident at the hospital's gynaecology and obstetrics department, alleged that even the ...