Gurugram, April 19, 2025 – Gurugram Police arrested 25-year-old Deepak Kumar, a technician at Medanta Hospital, on Friday for the alleged digital rape of a 46-year-old air hostess on ventilator support in the hospital’s ICU on April 6. The arrest, after a four-day manhunt, followed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by DCP Arpit Jain analyzing 800 CCTV cameras and questioning over 50 staff, per Hindustan Times .
The survivor, a West Bengal native in Gurugram for airline training, was admitted to Medanta on April 5 after a near-drowning incident at a hotel pool . Her FIR, filed April 14 post-discharge, detailed the assault: semi-conscious, she heard Kumar ask nurses about her waistband size, then felt him assault her under the bedsheet). Two nurses, present but inactive, didn’t intervene, she alleged . Blood on the sheet raised a nurse’s query, dismissed as menstrual . Kumar, a Bihar native with a recent Operation Theatre Technology degree, confessed, police said .
X buzzes with outrage—“Medanta’s a disgrace!”—but some defend the hospital: “One bad apple, not all” (post:1). Medanta suspended Kumar, citing full cooperation with police, though earlier claims of unsubstantiated allegations drew flak (web:18,19). The case, under BNS Sections 64(2) (rape) and 68 (abuse by authority), awaits Kumar’s court appearance today (web:8,20). Gurugram’s 2024 logged 1,200 violent crimes, 15% assault-related (NCRB).
The SIT’s probe, involving eight teams, highlights Gurugram’s crime fight—2024’s 3,200 arrests included Seelampur’s stabbing case “We’re relentless,” Jain told The Indian Express For India’s 140 crore, it’s a trust test—healthcare safety falters. Will justice hold, or expose deeper flaws?
