A 38-year-old man was arrested in Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district on Monday for allegedly raping a female patient after injecting her with an anesthetic, police said.
According to the complaint filed by the woman and her husband, the accused recorded the act and started cheating her, demanding R4 lakh for not making the video dangerous, the police added.
“We arrested the suspect after receiving a complaint about him. He was produced before the district court on Tuesday and remanded in police custody for five days,” said SP (Basirhat) Hossain Mehedi Rehman.
The suspect hails from Hasnabad in the same district.