Doctor barred from US Cannot practice in India: MCI decides, HC upholds
New Delhi: After being ousted from the US on charges of aggravated sexual assaults, a doctor who had earlier started his private practice in India, will now not be able to run his clinic any longer, since the apex Medical Council of India (MCI) has permanently erased his name from the Indian Medical Register. The said decision of the council was recently upheld by the Delhi High Court.
The case concerns one Dr Narendra K Gupta who came back to India form the US and set his clinic up in 2012. His private practice came to light in May last year, when he applied for his registration's renewal. This matter was taken up by the high court after the court took suo motu cognisance of a news report, which said that the doctor, after being barred from practicing by a US court in 2011, was now treating patients in the National Capital Region (NCR).
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The report had also said that the medical practitioner had pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual battery in the US, for unwarranted medical examination on women patients, a crime that carries a mandatory 25 years in prison in the US. He was charged with aggravated sexual battery for allegedly penetrating a patient with his finger during a pelvic exam at his clinic in Atlanta in 2009, adds the the Indian Express.
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