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Bihar: Students jailed on sexual assault charge
Patna, June 28 (IBNS): Two students reportedly from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences have been charged with sexual assault while conducting a survey at a hospital in Bihar, reports said.
According to reports, they were thrashed by the hospital staff while they were surveying and sent to jail on sexual assault charges.
Mohammad Shadab and Shikhar Singh went to the Sadar hospital in Muzaffarpur to collect data on healthcare administration. The survey was being conducted in co-ordination with Bihar's Health Department.
However, the hospital staff alleged that the duo posed as trainee IAS officers and misbehaved with the staff.
Meanwhile, officials at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences have denied the hospital staff's allegations.
While it was reported that the students were interning with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the latter denied it.
In a statement to IBNS, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said the students were not employed as interns.
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation states that the two men detained at the Muzaffarpur Hospital in Bihar are/were not employed as interns or in any other capacity at any given point of time by the Foundation as has been wrongly reported in the media. They were working as data collectors contracted independently by a grantee as a part of ‘Bihar Knowledge Network’ grant awarded in November 2013 which aims to understand knowledge flows across networks in the health system in Bihar."
"This study is separate from the ongoing monitoring of our program interventions, carried out in partnership with the Government of Bihar. The Foundation is committed to full cooperation with the investigating teams and to providing any information required to conduct a fair investigation.”
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