Malda, Sept. 6: Preliminary investigations have revealed that the girl found stark naked on the Malda district hospital campus yesterday had not been raped.

However, even after 24 hours, the 16-year-old is yet to get a set of clothes. A sheet of almost transparent cloth covers her body as she lies on a cot in the veranda of the hospital’s isolation ward. Nobody is sure why she has been kept there though it is yet to be known if she is suffering from any contagious disease like diarrhoea.

Nurses at the hospital alleged that none of the doctors were willing to attend to the girl. “She stinks, that is what they said. To us, she is a patient first and must be cared,” said a nurse on condition of anonymity.

Both the superintendent of the hospital, Maniklal Das, and Malda chief medical officer of health (CMOH) Radharaman Banik said nothing more should be expected of them. “We have examined her, she has not been raped and is deranged. We got her admitted to the hospital. What more do you want?” said Banik.

The girl had been spotted around 9am yesterday. She was admitted two hours later only after pressure from the nursing staff, who had staged a demonstration.

Police arrived late in the evening after The Telegraph informed the CMOH who in turn had called up the police chief.

“If she is deranged, she should have been transferred to the psychiatric ward or referred to a neurologist and not kept in isolation,” said Moli Chaki, the secretary of Malda District Nurses’ Association.

Additional superintendent of police Sujit Sarkar shrugged off all responsibility saying it was the hospital’s responsibility to provide her treatment. “We did our job. The girl has not been raped,” Sarkar said.

Malda district magistrate Chittaranjan Das, too, said since there has been no rape, the administration could not do much. Asked if the girl should not have been provided with some clothes, the district magistrate replied: “That should be the duty of the social welfare department. I will contact them immediately. Probably they are not aware of the incident.”

Though the hospital has registered the girl as “unidentified”, The Telegraph today found out her name. She said she was from Bihar.