Dr Yogita Gautam
AGRA: A woman doctor, 25, of the gynaecology department of SN Medical College, Agra was found murdered a few hours after she went missing on Wednesday. The body of Dr Yogita Gautam was found in Bamroli Ahir locality of Agra. A resident of Delhi’s Shivpuri area, she was the final year student of Master of Surgery and her result was declared on Tuesday. She had qualified as a surgeon.
According to the family members, she was kidnapped and murdered. They had filed a complaint of kidnapping and threat of murder at Agra’s MM Gate police station on Wednesday morning. She was last seen at college on Tuesday at 3pm.
In the police complaint, the family members have said that Yogita had completed her MBBS from a private college in Moradabad. “One of her seniors, Vivek Tiwari, a resident of Kanpur who is now serving as a medical officer in the district, was pressuring her for marriage,” the complaint said.
“Tiwari had also called the family members and threatened them to convince Yogita or face consequences,” it said.
Circle officer Vikas Jaiswal told TOI that an FIR has been registered against Dr Tewari under section 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of IPC on the complaint filed by woman’s family members.
Yogita was living in a rented accommodation at Rajamandi locality in Agra. Scared by the threat calls, Yogita’s brother and parents had arrived in Agra on Wednesday to take her back home.
According to police, Yogita was brutally murdered. Her dead body was found with several injuries on the head.
