Stalker molests eye surgeon, attacks hospital guards
Rajkot: A man obsessed with a 47-year-old eye surgeon turned up at the hospital she works at in Junagadh, assaulted two security guards, pelted the hospital with stones while demanding that the surgeon come out, and threatened to kill her while claiming to be her lover.
He fled before police arrived.
The surgeon filed a complaint at C Division police station in Junagadh against the man, Vijay alias Vakar Gondhiya, for molestation, sexual harassment, stalking and other offences.
The surgeon stated in her complaint that she was in the operation theatre on Monday when she was told that Gondhiya had come outside the hospital. He assaulted a security guard and threatened to kill him, saying he would set the complainant on fire.
He claimed that the complainant was his lover and insisted that she be called outside. He then attacked another guard and then left, but not before threatening to kill the complaint when she was driving her car.
Later, when the complainant was in her chamber, the hospital receptionist told her that Gondhiya had come back and was throwing stones at the hospital. Police were called but Gondhiya fled before they arrived.
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The surgeon stated in her complaint that the accused had stalked her earlier, with the intent of committing rape, leading her husband to file a complaint. Gondhiya had been incarcerated for that but began stalking her again on being released.
Recently, when she got out of her car outside her house, he allegedly went up to her and molested her. When she went home, he threw stones at her house. She said he also threw sindoor and love letters on her property and had been continually harassing her. Police booked Gondhiya under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 74, 75(1) and 78, among others.
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