N.Y. Drivers Fail to Stop, Help Injured Doctor

A doctor was abducted by robbers, stabbed repeatedly and dumped along a parkway where hundreds of motorists drove by without stopping to help, police said today.

Dr. Diswanath Roy, 54, of New York City lost more than eight pints of blood Tuesday and would have died if two police officers had not seen him and rushed him to the hospital without waiting for an ambulance, doctors said.

“Please don’t let me die here,” Roy told the officers who took him to a nearby hospital.

X Carved on Leg

Roy was listed in critical but stable condition today, recovering from stab wounds to the chest, leg and groin. Police said the robbers who abducted him also carved an X on his leg.

Police arrested three suspects they saw sitting in the doctor’s car, which was tagged with MD license plates. A fourth man may have been involved, police said.

Roy’s ordeal began when the men forced him into his car outside a clinic where he works as a gynecologist, police said. The men drove Roy around for about an hour, robbing him of cash and other valuables and stabbing him repeatedly in the chest, groin and leg, on which they carved the X, police reported.

Tried to Flag Down Cars

They dumped him down a parkway embankment near the Bronx Zoo, then sped off. Roy crawled up the embankment to the side of the road, where he apparently tried to flag down cars for 10 to 15 minutes, police said.