Man arrested for alleged murder, sexual assault of nurse returning home from Uttarakhand hospital
The body of the woman, 33, was found a week after she went missing.
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A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering a nurse who worked at a private hospital in Uttarakhand, The Indian Express reported.
The accused man, Dharmendra Kumar, was arrested a week after the nurse’s body was found at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district. The man allegedly stopped her while she was returning home after work at the hospital located in Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur town on July 30 and then assaulted her.
After the woman left the hospital on the evening of July 30, she was seen on security camera footage taking an e-rickshaw from Indra Chowk in Rudrapur, NDTV reported. Rudrapur is located in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district.
However, she did not reach her rented accommodation at Kashipur Road in Uttar Pradesh’s Bilaspur, where she stayed with her 11-year-old daughter, according to NDTV.
The woman’s sister had filed a missing person report on July 31, The Times of India reported. The body of the woman, 33, was found at an empty plot a week later in Rampur’s Dibdiba area near the state’s border with Uttarakhand border.
“When we searched for her [the nurse], we got to know that she had reached all the way to her village [before being attacked] in Uttar Pradesh,” Manjunath TC, the Udham Singh Nagar senior superintendent of police,...
