“The accused is still in custody as the case will be taken up in court,” said Inspector D K Rai at the Chowk police station.

Meanwhile, CSMMU administration has decided to make administrative changes and take precautionary measures to avoid such incidents in the future. The administration asked all private organisations running equipment like X-Ray, MRI etc, to conduct police verification of their employees deployed at the university. They have been asked to submit the findings to CSMMU authorities as soon as possible.

“We have made police verification mandatory for all private employees working here. However, we are not in favour of such public-private-partnerships in a medical institution. Thus, we are preparing a proposal for the government to end such partnership and deploy our own staff at the several centres operational in the university,” said Dr S K Agarwal, CSMMU’s officiating vice-chancellor. “This step will increase accountability and also automatically reduce such incidents,” he added.

Sources said there are about 40 such employees, including technicians or other paramedical staff of private organisations working at CSMMU.