Navi Mumbai: A Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court in Vashi has convicted a 47-year-old doctor for molesting his patient in 2014, and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for two years.
Magistrate Nadeem Patel also directed the accused, Sambhaji Tike, to pay ₹20,000 as compensation within one month, failing which he will be sentenced to simple imprisonment of one month.
On March 12, 2014, the 23-year-old victim had visited Tike in his clinic in Juinagar along with her friend as she was suffering from common cold. She entered Tike’s cabin, while her friend waited in the reception area.
On the pretext of giving her an injection, Tike touched the victim’s private parts, and then asked her not to tell anyone about the incident. The victim, on reaching home, told her parents about it, following which a case was lodged with the Nerul police.
Tike was arrested the next day from his residence at Akashganga Society in Sector 23, Seawoods. On the basis of the victim and her friend’s statements recorded before the magistrate, the JMFC court in Vashi convicted and sentenced Tike for the offence, which is punishable under Sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code with Section 248(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973.
