An ASHA employee was allegedly abused and assaulted in Gorakhpur when she had gone to a village to gather particulars of native residents for COVID-19 vaccination.
According to the police, Geeta Singh (49) was assaulted on June 3 in Dumaria village when she was asking for details about the residents, who additionally tore an official pocket book containing the small print of the folks she met. had already been discovered. A case has been registered in opposition to 10 named folks at Gulharia police station. No one has been arrested to date.
Singh, posted on the Bhahat Community Health Center (CHC), mentioned, “I needed to put together a report by accumulating the Aadhaar and phone numbers of the native residents… I reached Chhote Lal’s home and requested for the Aadhaar numbers of all of the members of the family.
“Soon thereafter, Chhote Lal’s son Pappu got here and began abusing me for asking particulars. He advised me that nobody within the household wanted vaccination. Some girls got here, and after I once more requested the household for his or her particulars, they pushed me and forcibly took my pocket book.
When contacted, SHO of Gulharia police station Vinod Kumar mentioned that an FIR has been registered beneath varied sections of the IPC and investigation has been began.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
