Kerala doctor stabbed 27 times with scissors by school teacher in hospital

KOLLAM: A Kerala tribunal connected Saturday sentenced G Sandeep, a 42-year-old schoolhouse teacher, to beingness imprisonment for the sensational execution of Dr Vandana Das astatine Kottarakkara Taluk Hospital successful May 2023.

In addition, the tribunal imposed a full of 30 years for different offences nether the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which Sandeep volition service earlier commencing the beingness word for the murder, according to peculiar nationalist authoritative Prathap G Padickal. Dr Das, 23, a location surgeon and the lone kid of her parents from Kaduthuruthy, Kottayam district, was attacked with surgical scissors successful the aboriginal hours of May 10, 2023. Sandeep, who had been brought to the infirmary by constabulary for attraction of a limb wounded sustained successful an alleged quarrel adjacent his home, archetypal assaulted constabulary unit and a backstage idiosyncratic accompanying him, earlier fatally stabbing the young doctor.

Dr Das succumbed to her injuries astatine a backstage infirmary successful Thiruvananthapuram. The court, which had convicted Sandeep connected March 17, recovered him blameworthy nether aggregate IPC provisions, including murder, demolition of evidence, and wrongful restraint, arsenic good arsenic nether the Kerala Healthcare Service Persons and Healthcare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act, 2012. It rejected the defence assertion of schizophrenia, ruling that Sandeep was afloat alert of his actions and had premeditated the attack.

During the trial, implicit 70 witnesses testified and much than 200 documents—including aesculapian and forensic reports—were examined. Psychiatric evaluations confirmed the accused’s intelligence fittingness astatine the clip of the incident. Reacting to the verdict, Dr Vandana’s parents expressed alleviation but besides indicated dissatisfaction with the punishment, signaling plans to prosecute an entreaty seeking the decease penalty. The prosecution has confirmed it volition urge filing an entreaty to heighten the beingness word to superior punishment, arguing the onslaught was a “rarest-of-rare” case. Dr Vandana’s parent tearfully said the household wishes for maximum punishment, noting that her girl had been stabbed 27 times successful the attack. The incidental had sparked wide outrage crossed Kerala, prompting protests from the aesculapian assemblage demanding stronger extortion for healthcare workers. The court’s elaborate judgement is awaited, but Saturday’s sentencing marks a large measurement successful a lawsuit that drew nationalist attraction for the brutality of the transgression and the ongoing statement implicit information successful aesculapian facilities.