Doctor denies sex assaults
A HOSPITAL consultant has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting three women who he was performing medical examinations on.
Dr Narendra Kochar, 50, from Timperley, denies six counts of sexual assault on the women when he worked at the Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Prosecutors at Manchester Crown Court allege that Dr Kochar, a consultant gastroenterologist, ‘exploited’ examinations for his ‘own sexual gratification.’
The charges relate to alleged sexual touching by Dr Kochar on three women.
Prosecuting, Darren Preston said: “It is the prosecution case that this defendant exploited what were relatively intimate examinations of these patients for his own sexual gratification.”
Jurors heard that one alleged victim saw Dr Kochar at the hospital for a colonoscopy.
She claims that while he was performing the procedure, Dr Kochar put his hands between her legs and touched her genital area.
At first she thought it was accidental, the court heard.
She asked for the procedure to be stopped, but nurses also present thought this was in relation to the invasive nature of the procedure and sought to reassure her, jurors were told.
Prosecutors claim that Dr Kochar committed the alleged act ‘quite deliberately, without any clinical justification.’
She didn’t report her allegations immediately, but later told a therapist.
A second female complainant went to see the doctor for an examination to her abdomen.
Mr Preston said that ‘without warning’ Dr Kochar put his hand under her
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bra and touched her breast. At first she ‘passed it off as clumsiness,’ jurors heard. Dr Kochar is also accused of putting his hand on her thigh on the same occasion.
A third complainant claims Dr Kochar sexually assaulted her on a number of occasions.
She says that she had about 13 appointments with Dr Kochar and that there were ‘only about two or three where he didn’t touch her.’ It is alleged that Dr Kochar put his hands in her underwear near her genital area.
Dr Kochar, of Spring Gardens, Timperley, was interviewed by police in relation to the allegations made by the three women. He denied any wrongdoing.
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