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Doctor gets 10-Year Imprisonment for Sexually Assaulting Patient

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Express News Service    10 August 2022

On Monday, the Hyderabad court found a 55-year-old doctor guilty of sexually assaulting a patient. The patient sought treatment for asthma at his clinic in 2017. The judge from the XI Additional Metropolitan Sessions at Nampally criminal court also sentenced the doctor to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.

According to a police officer, the doctor was a consultant pulmonologist and had a clinic in Secunderabad. The doctor was accused of touching the woman’s private parts under the pretext of treatment and examination. Initially, the petitioner was made to believe that the doctor examining her for treatment was qualified. However, she later came across another woman who questioned the doctor’s methods.

The officer added that the woman’s husband complained to the police and stated that the doctor had misbehaved and sexually assaulted his wife more than once when she had gone to his clinic with asthma-related complications. The convicted doctor was booked by the Gopalapuram police under Sections 376 (sexual assault) and 354 (assault or use of criminal force on any woman) of the Indian Penal Code in 2017. 

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