Doctor kills patient after affair, held in Gaziabad

Doctor kills his girlfriend by injecting poison in Gaziabad

A 33-year-old doctor was arrested from his clinic in Dasna on Saturday, more than a month after he allegedly smothered to death a woman patient with whom he had developed a relationship. Police said the woman, a mother of four, was pestering the doctor to live with her. The doctor, however, was unwilling as he, too, is married. Ismail, the accused, is believed to have told the police that the patient’s repeated pleas to stay with the doctor in a different house drove him to commit the murder.

The accused doctor himself is married and has been running the clinic in Dasna for past five years. He had first met the woman there several months ago. The case came to light when woman’s husband lodged a missing complaint with Gaziabad police on September 7.

After complaint being filed, the cops shared her photos with their counterparts in neighboring district and states. Over a month of search by the cops failed to elicit any result. On October 15, the police of Gaziabad got a call from the Haryana cops that a body had been found near Kurukshetra and it matched the photos shared by them.

After the body was identified, the police examined her call records and zeroed down on Ismail. On strict inquiry, Dr Ismail confessed his crime. SP Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said Ismail had initially denied any role in the murder. “He later confessed to the crime. He told us the woman would come to his clinic for treatment and they had developed a liking for each other. The woman was constantly bothering the doctor to stay together, but he kept refusing as he was married,” the officer added.

Ismail was frustrated and planned her murder as he told her they would stay together in a house in Chandigarh. “On September 7, the doctor took her to a hotel in Paharganj on a bike and stayed in a room there. He then left after the patient went off to sleep,” Neeraj Kumar Jadaun, SP of Haryana Police. The next day, Ismail hired a car and drove it himself to Paharganj. He picked her up there and told her they were going to Chandigarh. On the way, the two had a fight and the woman, who had asthma, started to having breathing problems. “Ismail then bought a combination of three drugs and them into her. When the woman became unconscious, the accused used a towel to smother her to death,” the SP said.

Ismail dumped the body at a secluded spot in Kurukshetra and returned home, “since then he had been running his clinic as usual,” Jadaun said. The accused has been booked under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offense, or giving false information to screen offender)