Recently a high profile case attracted a lot of attention when a renowned city-based paediatrician, Dr. Prakritish Bora, who practices in International Hospital and Excel Centre, was arrested by Panbazar Police on 20th July in an assault case filed by one of his lady colleagues. According to police sources, two cases were filed in Panbazar Police Station by both Dr. Soma Dhar and Bora, but it appears that Bora was arrested from Soma’s residence located at SS Road, Lakhtokia. What exactly happened and why did Bora visit Soma’s house? Why was Bora detained by Soma and her close family members in her house? G Plus tries to explore the situation.
The incident
Panbazar police sources narrated the incident which took place on 20th July 2016. The police source said that at around 9.30 am Dr. Soma Dhar called the police and informed that Dr. Prakritish Bora had entered her house and was creating a nuisance. She informed the police that she and her family members had detained Bora in her house. The police reached the spot and brought Bora and his two associates - Rajiv Baruah, driver and Bijoy Das, attendant - who were waiting below the building. Soma then reached the police station and filed an FIR. Police registered a case (case number -301/16 under section 448/427/352/354/294/506/34 of IPC). The police arrested the three but only two were forwarded to the court as Bora complained of ill health and is under medication now. Rajiv and Bijoy were sent to judicial custody. Police sources said that Dr. Bora also filed an FIR and another cross case was registered in the police station (case number – 3012/16 under section 147/ 294/325/ IPC). But what actually happened inside Dr. Soma’s house?
The story
According to police sources, Bora told the police that he had gone to Soma’s house to collect his mobile phone which Soma along with her husband Amit Dhar had taken from his office cabin at International Hospital. Meanwhile, police also said that Soma denied such claims of Prakritish and said she never took away any mobile phone from his office. Panbazar police sources said that they are still investigating the case to find the truth. Meanwhile, a close associate of Bora, talking to G Plus under conditions of anonymity, said that on 18th July, a case was registered in Dispur police station by Bora with regard to the same mobile phone. Contacting the sources in Dispur police station, it came to light that on 18th July an incident had occurred in International Hospital. The source said that Dr. Prakritish Bora had filed a case on 18th July complaining that Dr. Soma Dhar and her husband had come to his cabin in International Hospital on the same day, misbehaved with him and also forcibly took a mobile phone away from him. The Dispur police then went to Dr. Soma’s house searching for the mobile phone but failed to find the instrument there. Later, Soma was summoned to Dispur police station where she rubbished the charge that she had taken any kind of mobile phone from Bora’s cabin. Soma told the police that she had gone to his cabin to submit her resignation but he was behaving very awkwardly. He had made her wait outside his cabin for a long time and later behaved very rudely. The police source said that both the parties did not state the exact reason for the quarrel but Bora said that he was manhandled by Soma and her husband and he even received an injury in his eyes. So the incident on 18th July led to the incident which took place on 20th July.
The silence
Meanwhile the International Hospital officials did not want to comment anything on the incident and many in the hospital expressed total ignorance about the high profile case. Dr. Bora is a renowned and much respected doctor in Guwahati and Dr. Soma Dhar was working in the hospital as a junior paediatrician under Dr. Bora, according to hospital sources. The hospital sources also said that it never seemed like both of them could ever engage in a quarrel, leave alone assault, as both are socially very well behaved and decent. But according to the source at Dispur police station Dr. Bora had apparently said that Dr. Soma used to call him and disturb him quite often and the records are in the mobile which Soma and her husband had taken away from his cabin. Both the doctors are tight lipped. G Plus tried to contact Dr. Soma but she was not available. But what exactly was in the mobile is the major question that the police need to find the answer to. Further, was the first complaint filed by Dr. Bora genuine or not? Was there any other angle to the incident? Else why had the lady doctor gone to Bora’s room with her husband? Also why did Dr. Bora go to Soma’s house to fetch his mobile phone when he had already filed a case with the police and the police was investigating the matter? The mobile phone might solve the mystery but the incident proves that even educated people like doctors can sometimes behave weirdly.
Police arrests top city-based paediatrician in assault case
Dr. Prakritish Bora is under medication whereas two of his associates have been sent to judicial custody
Bora was detained in Dr. Soma Dhar’s house and thereafter she complained to the police
Interestingly it is reported that before the incident Bora had already filed a case at Dispur police station
According to Bora’s complaint Soma and her husband manhandled him in his International Hospital cabin, assaulted him and took his mobile
After Bora’s arrest he said that he had gone to Soma’s house to fetch his mobile phone
Police has not yet recovered the mobile phone which might answer many questions
Meanwhile both are tight-lipped about the cause of the conflict
Dr. Soma was working as a junior paediatrician under Bora
According to police sources, Bora complained that Soma used to call him and disturb him and this was recorded in the mobile phone