India, Sept. 15 -- An employee of a private service provider was arrested in Bengal's East Midnapore district on Monday for allegedly raping a contractual worker deployed by the company at the Bengal government-run Panskura Superspeciality Hospital, police said.

"The accused, Zahir Abbas Khan, has been arrested on the charges filed by the contractual worker. She alleged that Khan called her to his room on the ground floor of the hospital and raped her on Sunday night," a police official said requesting anonymity.

The survivor, employed by Reliable Service Provider Ltd where Khan was a facility manager, told the local media that he tried to rape her earlier also but she had managed to resist.

"I complained about Khan to a company manage...