Kurnool: Four persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly administering HIV injections by doctors here, police said on Sunday. The doctor is said to be the wife of the woman’s former lover.
The accused have been identified as B Boya Vasundhara (34), a resident of Kurnool, Konge Jyothi (40), a nurse at a private hospital in Adoni, and her two children, who are in their 20s. They were arrested on January 24, police said.
“After conspiring with three others and staging a road accident, Vasundhara allegedly injected the HIV virus with a doctor who is the wife of her ex-lover,” an official told PTI.
The police said the accused received HIV-infected blood samples from patients being treated at a government hospital, saying the samples were required for research purposes.
According to the police, the accused claims that he stored the infected blood in the refrigerator.
The accused could not accept that her former lover had married another woman and therefore conspired to separate the couple.
Accordingly, on January 9 around 2.30 pm, the victim, an assistant professor at a private medical college in Kurnool, was returning home on a scooter after lunch duty.
Two persons on a motorcycle deliberately hit her scooter near the KC canal at Vinayak Ghat, causing her to fall and injure herself. The defendant then approached her under the guise of offering help. As Vasundhara tried to take her in an autorickshaw, he allegedly injected her with HIV before fleeing the scene when the victim raised an alarm, police said.
The official said the victim was treated immediately and is now fine, with doctors confirming that his condition is stable.
Police said the virus cannot survive for several days even if stored in a refrigerator, and the only concern was a foreign particle entering the body.
“As the victim herself is a doctor, she was familiar with the tests and medicines and other doctors advised her to come back after three weeks as the mutation time,” the official said.
The victim’s husband, also a doctor, filed a complaint at the Kurnool III city police station on January 10, following which a case was registered under Sections 126(2), 118(1), 272 read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
