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Goons assault health staff at vaccine centre in Jaipur’s Shastri Nagar area , 3 booked | Jaipur News
JAIPUR: Attack on a vaccination team disrupted Covid inoculations at the Institute of Respiratory Diseases (IRD) of SMS Medical College in Shastri Nagar area when at least three persons allegedly assaulted the nursing staff and computer operator on Tuesday.
Police registered an FIR against 2-3 unidentified persons under IPC section 332 for voluntarily causing hurt to public servants.
“Four to five persons skipped the line of beneficiaries and asked the computer operator to get them vaccinated. When denied, they abused him and held him by the shirt’s collar and even hit him with a chair. When I tried to stop them, they thrashed me. We called police but they did not reach for an hour. When police came, one of them used the policeman’s lathi and hit the staff,” said a nursing staff whose video was circulating on social networking platforms.
The nursing staff alleged that the persons who created the ruckus allegedly had support of local councillor Manoj Mudgal.
Mudgal denied the allegation, saying he was not present at the spot and did not know the persons who created the ruckus at the vaccination centre. “It is a baseless allegation. I do not know the persons who did this in the hospital. I do not know why nursing staff Om Prakash Jat dragged my name. I was not even present on the spot. I came to know that one person had gone to the vaccination centre and asked the computer operator to verify his mobile number for second dose, but when it was not getting verified, he asked him to try again it but it converted into an altercation between the two,” said Mudgal.
Following the incident, the nursing staff and the vaccination team started sloganeering and boycotted work demanding the arrest of the accused.
IRD superintendent Dr Vinod Joshi, who was on leave, reached the hospital on a call. “When I reached the hospital, the accused were still creating violence. I called the police, which took them to the police station,” said Dr Joshi.
Police registered an FIR against 2-3 unidentified persons under IPC section 332 for voluntarily causing hurt to public servants.
“Four to five persons skipped the line of beneficiaries and asked the computer operator to get them vaccinated. When denied, they abused him and held him by the shirt’s collar and even hit him with a chair. When I tried to stop them, they thrashed me. We called police but they did not reach for an hour. When police came, one of them used the policeman’s lathi and hit the staff,” said a nursing staff whose video was circulating on social networking platforms.
The nursing staff alleged that the persons who created the ruckus allegedly had support of local councillor Manoj Mudgal.
Mudgal denied the allegation, saying he was not present at the spot and did not know the persons who created the ruckus at the vaccination centre. “It is a baseless allegation. I do not know the persons who did this in the hospital. I do not know why nursing staff Om Prakash Jat dragged my name. I was not even present on the spot. I came to know that one person had gone to the vaccination centre and asked the computer operator to verify his mobile number for second dose, but when it was not getting verified, he asked him to try again it but it converted into an altercation between the two,” said Mudgal.
Following the incident, the nursing staff and the vaccination team started sloganeering and boycotted work demanding the arrest of the accused.
IRD superintendent Dr Vinod Joshi, who was on leave, reached the hospital on a call. “When I reached the hospital, the accused were still creating violence. I called the police, which took them to the police station,” said Dr Joshi.
