Kolkata, Oct. 21 -- A Home Guard volunteer was arrested after physically assaulting an on-duty junior woman doctor of the West Bengal government-owned Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Medical College and Hospital at Uluberia in Howrah district, police said today.
The incident happened when the Home Guard volunteer, identifying himself as a senior police officer, entered the maternity department leading at least 10 people along with a pregnant woman and asked the junior doctor on duty to examine her immediately.
The doctor alleged that despite her checking the woman's condition, one of her relatives kicked her and another twisted her hand with warning that she would face dire consequence once she was out of the hospital.
Sources said the assaul...