London: An NRI doctor in the UK, guilty of sexually assaulting two women patients during their medical check-ups, has been ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid community work, even as he faces cancellation of his practising license.
After the order was passed at the Basildon Crown Court this week, Rajinder Aggarwal, 54 is expected to be struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council (GMC), and prevented from practising in future.
Aggarwal who graduated from the Punjab University, Patiala, in 1987, has been given a nine-month "community order" by the court, which includes 80 hours of unpaid work and a requirement to be supervised by the Probation Service.
Judge Christopher Mitchell at the Basildon Crown Court also ordered him to pay 3,000 pounds towards court costs.
Noting the complains made by the patients, Judge Mitchell told Aggarwal, "As far as their complaints were concerned, you acted perfectly properly in the way that you treated them but what you did, which was decidedly odd and immediately frightening for each of these women, was that you suddenly smacked their behinds."
Aggarwal was earlier found guilty of sexually assaulting the two women while working as a locum at the Aveley medical Centre in South Ockendon and Homerton Hospital in East London between December 2006 and January 2007.