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Technician murdered at Apollo lab
Express News Service First Published : 30 May 2009
08:22:30 AM ISTLast Updated : BANGALORE: Jathina George, a 27-year-old lab technician at Apollo Hospital, was used to night shifts. Thursday, like any other, would have been an ordinary night at work.
Only, on Friday morning, when the house-keeping staff entered the microbiology lab, they found her dead.
After months of harassing the girl, a co-worker, 28-year-old Palani, had strangled her to death. The hospital’s CCTV camera has recorded the entire sequence of events that began at 2:30 am.
Jathina’s family is distraught.
The family claims that they had complained to the HR Department at the hospital about the harassment she was facing from Palani.
They believe that the murder happened because the complaint was never followed upon. Jathina’s brother Joby George says, “For the past three months she has been complaining that Palani was harassing her in the hospital when at work, and was pressurising her to get married to him. Even on Thursday around 10.30 pm, she had called me up saying that Palani was harassing her.” Jathina’s family members claim that the hospital staff had been uncooperative and had even moved the body for post-mortem without seeking their consent.
On Thursday night, Palani had returned to the hospital after having finished his work shift for that day. Dr Umapathy, CEO of Apollo Hospital said, “One of our employees had also questioned him as to why he was there even after his shift was up. He said that he had come to visit his relative who was admitted in the hospital. If we had the slightest clue, we would have stopped him, but we cannot suspect our own employees.” The police have seized the CCTV camera fo