NHRC demands report from Assam government in doctor assault case

The NHRC on Friday demanded an action taken report in the doctor assault incident from the Assam government.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has called for an action taken report from the Assam chief secretary, the director-general of police and Assam government after taking cognizance of a complaint about the brutal assault on a doctor by the relatives of a Covid patient at Udali Model Hospital in Hojai district on June 1. NHRC has demanded a report within 4 weeks. Besides an enquiry into the allegations, the report is expected to include the needful preventive and punitive action taken in the matter. ALSO READ: 594 doctors have died in Covid second wave so far, most of them in Delhi: IMA