A top minister in Indian-administered Kashmir is being investigated after an allegation from a doctor that he sexually assaulted her, police said.
The senior gynaecologist has alleged that the state's health minister Shabir Ahmed Khan had asked her to come to his office a few days back.
There he tried to molest her, she said.
Mr Khan did not answer repeated phone calls, but sources close to him said he would soon appear before the police chief to give his account.
Civil society groups and the medical fraternity in Kashmir have expressed anguish over the disclosure and doctors have called a day's strike at the weekend to protest the "barbaric act", reports BBC Urdu's Riyaz Masroor from Srinagar.
In 2006, Kashmir was rocked by sensational disclosures about top ministers, security officials and bureaucrats running a sex racket.
Several top ministers and officials were jailed after some girls revealed in court that they were sexually exploited after they were promised jobs in the government.
Most of the accused are now out on bail and have resumed their positions in the government.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had threatened to resign when the opposition group alleged that he too figured in the list of those accused of exploiting girls.
Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
The senior gynaecologist has alleged that the state's health minister Shabir Ahmed Khan had asked her to come to his office a few days back.
There he tried to molest her, she said.
Mr Khan did not answer repeated phone calls, but sources close to him said he would soon appear before the police chief to give his account.
Civil society groups and the medical fraternity in Kashmir have expressed anguish over the disclosure and doctors have called a day's strike at the weekend to protest the "barbaric act", reports BBC Urdu's Riyaz Masroor from Srinagar.
In 2006, Kashmir was rocked by sensational disclosures about top ministers, security officials and bureaucrats running a sex racket.
Several top ministers and officials were jailed after some girls revealed in court that they were sexually exploited after they were promised jobs in the government.
Most of the accused are now out on bail and have resumed their positions in the government.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had threatened to resign when the opposition group alleged that he too figured in the list of those accused of exploiting girls.
Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
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