A court has acquitted a doctor accused of sexually assaulting a male Covid-19 patient in a city hospital in 2020 after he deposed that he did not know who that doctor was, as the latter was wearing a PPE kit. Metropolitan Magistrate Pravin Modi acquitted the 33-year-old doctor on March 22 and the detailed order was made available on Monday.

The patient also told the court that he could not say what was “abnormal” in the activities of the doctor. The court in its order said the evidence in the case is “not inspiring confidence” that the accused has done such an act which is likely to spread the infection of coronavirus. As per the FIR, the 33-year-old doctor had indulged in “inappropriate sexual behaviour” with him when he was admitted to the hospital for Covid-19 symptoms.