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LUCKNOW: Two security guards and a liftman have been booked for the gangrape of a woman in Shatabdi Hospital of King George’s Medical University on Wednesday night.

While the private security guards have been arrested, the liftman is absconding. KGMU has blacklisted both agencies the men came from.

According to the police, the 38-year-old survivor and her husband had come from Hardoi on Wednesday for the man’s treatment. As the doctor they wanted to see was on leave, the couple was spending the night in the first floor verandah of the phase I building. They were to return the next morning.

Around 10pm on Wednesday, security guard Shiv Kumar picked up a conversation with the couple and left. He returned half an hour later, offering them food in the hospital canteen. Asking the woman to follow him there, Kumar took her to the fourth floor in an elevator and into the machine room. His friends liftman Vinay and security guard Santosh were already there.

According to the complaint by the woman’s husband, Kumar gagged her and the three men took turns to rape her. When they freed the woman, who was by then in immense pain, she narrated her ordeal to her husband. Barely mobile due to his ailment, the man said they would file a police complaint in the morning.

Around midnight, the miscreants returned and tried to talk the couple out of filing a complaint. They offered them Rs 25,000 in cash readily but the couple refused. Irked, the trio threw the couple out of the hospital.

On Thursday morning, the couple informed the police, who nabbed Kumar from the canteen. The woman was sent to Balrampur hospital for a medical test. Santosh was arrested from his house in Thakurganj in the evening.

Chowk inspector IP Singh said a case under gangrape has been registered and all efforts are on to nab Vinay.

Meanwhile, KGMU vice chancellor Prof MLB Bhatt ordered that the security agency and lift maintenance agency be blacklisted. “It has been decided to completely blacklist the two agencies after the gruesome incident,” said spokesperson Prof Verma.

The university has 398 private security guards on campus. Of these, 103 are from the now blacklisted security service.

