PIO doctor jailed for misconduct

London: An India-born doctor was on Thursday sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting four women patients in United Kingdom between 2008 and 2015.

Jaswant Rathore was found guilty of conducting unnecessary massages on the patients at his Castle Meadows Surgery in Dudley, in the West Midlands region of UK.

The 60-year-old, who had moved to UK with his family at the age of three, was also placed on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely and made the subject of a 15-year sexual harm prevention order at the end of the hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

“You used your standing within the community as a cloak behind which you could carry out sexual assaults on your patients for your personal gratification,” Judge Michael Challinor said.

“By your actions you violated the faith they had in you to carry out legitimate medical procedures,” he said.