Man nabbed from Kolkata for attacking doctor in Bhayandar

Police escort Rashid Shakil Khan on Tuesday. Pic/Hanif Patel

The Crime Branch of the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police have arrested one person from Kolkata for allegedly attacking and robbing a doctor at her clinic in Bhayandar on January 23. The doctor had received 30 stitches on her head and is recuperating at a private hospital.

Crime Branch sources said accused Rashid Shakil Khan, 52, posed as a patient and waited outside Dr Gayatri Jaiswal's clinic, on Amrutvani Satsang road, Bhayandar West, as the doctor was treating other patients. He met the doctor on the pretext of doing the RT-PCR test and attacked her before escaping with cash and gold ornaments, said an officer.

The chase begins

A case was registered at the Bhayandar police station. The police launched a manhunt to apprehend the assailant along with the central crime branch and officials from Crime Branch unit-1. "Looking at the modus of the accused, we searched the records of habitual and professional criminals, in which one such incident was reported to have happened in 2021 in Mira Road.

The accused had attacked a senior citizen with a hammer and had escaped with jewellery and cash worth R1.5 lakh. The crime branch unit-1 had then cracked the case and arrested Khan from Malad East," said an officer. Assistant commissioner of police Amol Mandve, said, "After scanning over a dozen CCTV footages, using technical analysis of the accused mobile number and call data record we identified the accused. He had fled to Panvel and later to Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh and Patna in Bihar. From there he went to Kolkata."

"The officers from crime branch unit-1 and centre branch chased the accused, and arrested him from Kolkata," Mandve said. Khan has been booked and arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and will be produced before the court on Wednesday, Mandve added.

Accused is a history-sheeter

Khan, who hails from the Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, is a notorious criminal with a history of offenses registered against him at police stations in Thane and Mumbai. He was also arrested for his involvement in theft cases in Dubai. After serving two and a half years of imprisonment in Dubai, he managed to escape without a passport and went to the Maldives. He, later, came to Mumbai, and resided at Pathanwadi, Malad East, said another officer.

23 Jan
The date on which the incident took place