The Manikpur police in Vasai arrested a ward boy of a COVID-19 hospital for sexually harassing a patient who was admitted there. The woman has accused the man of making obscene videos of her and blackmailing her after she was discharged.

The accused has been identified as 29-year-old Rohit Rajbhar. According to police sources, Rajbhar made the videos and clicked the photos of the woman while she was asleep. A few days later, when she went home after being discharged, she started receiving texts with those photos and videos on WhatsApp, they added.