The 22-year-old female patient was allegedly molested by the ward boy Ashok Kahra last night when she was being shifted to the female ward of the Tata Main Hospital in a semi conscious state after an operation, the sources said.
Kahra fled when a nurse noticed him near the patient's bed and shouted at him, they said,
After she regained her sense today, the woman narrated the incident to her relatives, who lodged a complaint with the police.
The police arrested Kahra after the case was registered in this connection, said A K Yadav, Inspector-in-Charge of Bistupur police station.