Cadila Pharmaceuticals : Bulgarian national undergoes medical tests 

Ahmedabad : A day after Sola Police in Ahmedabad filed a complaint of alleged rape, molestation and intimidation against the chairman and managing director of Cadila Pharmaceuticals Rajiv Modi, the complainant Bulgarian woman underwent medical tests on January 1.

The complaint was filed against Modi after a direction of the Gujarat High Court. It also mentions Johnson Mathew, one of the employees of the company.

The order was passed after the Bulgarian national, who had joined the company as a flight attendant, had moved the Gujarat High Court.

A complaint was filed against Modi under sections 376, 504 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code.

According to sources, the woman underwent tests at the Sola Civil Hospital on the S G Highway.

Gujarat DGP Vikas Sahay has said that the probe will be monitored by additional commissioner of police sector 1, Ahmedabad City Chirag Koradia.

The Police will submit its investigation report to the Gujarat High Court.

The woman had reportedly filed an application with the Women’s Cell of the Police Department, but later on approached the High Court after the police allegedly failed to take action.

The Gujarat High Court in its order dated December 22, directed the chief judicial magistrate to pass an order of investigation by a competent police official into the complaint.

She had told the court that she came to India on November 24, 2022 for a job as a flight attendant and joined the company. However, her job profile was changed and she was made a butler-cum-personal attendant and appointed to travel and remain with the CMD of the company.

She claimed that during her job, she was subjected to sexual harassment and she was removed from the job on April 3, 2023 when she did not surrender to the “illicit demands”.

The Bulgarian woman had reportedly written to the Bulgarian Embassy and other concerned offices in the matter. She alleged that she was pressured to withdraw her complaint and forced to file an affidavit with the Women’s Cell of the Police mentioning that she had settled the matter with the employee and got a demand draft of Rs 24 lakh for it.

Her next course of action was to file a second complaint with the police. She also filed a private complaint before a magisterial court, which dismissed the complaint.