BHUBANESWAR: The Khandagiri police here on Sunday registered a case against an office-bearer of a housing society in the capital city for allegedly threatening a junior doctor of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, with rape if she did not vacate her apartment for fear her presence could expose others in the society to novel coronavirus “We have registered a case of criminal intimidation against the society’s office-bearer and are verifying her charges,” additional commissioner of police Anup Kumar Sahoo said.A counter case was lodged by the society against the family at the same police station. “We have received a complaint from the society alleging that her family members had misbehaved with the office-bearers. So, we have registered a counter case,” Sahoo added.In her FIR, the lady doctor alleged that the society’s office-bearer threatened to rape her if she did not vacate the apartment as she works in AIIMS, a designated hospital for treating Covid-19 patients.She claimed that she has been facing harassment from the office-bearer for a week but it was on Sunday when she was threatened with rape, that she decided to approach the police.“We have been living in our flat for several years in Khandagiri area. But a society office-bearer, his wife and two sons hurled abuses at me and asked me to leave. While the nation cheers healthcare professionals as warriors, the office-bearer said I might spread novel coronavirus in the society as I am a doctor,” the doctor, who is not involved in treatment of Covid-19 patients stated in her FIR. She also claimed no one from the society stood beside her.While the society’s management was unavailable for comment, police said housing societies have no right to intimidate tenants or house owners to vacate homes in view of Covid-19 outbreak.