വാഷിങ്ടൺ: രോഗിയായ പെൺകുട്ടികളെ കടന്നുപിടിച്ച ഇന്ത്യൻ ഡോക്ർക്ക് യു.എസിൽ ജയിൽ ശിക്ഷ. അരുൺ അഗർവാൾ (40) നെയാണ് കോടതി പത്ത് മാസം തടവിന് ശിക്ഷിച്ചത്. ശിക്ഷ കഴിഞ്ഞയുടൻ അഗർവാളിനെ ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് കയറ്റി അയക്കാനും കോടതി ഉത്തരവിട്ടിട്ടുണ്ട്.
ഒഹായോയിലെ കുട്ടികളുടെ ആശുപത്രിയിൽ ഡോക്ടറായ അരുൺ മെഡിക്കൽ പരിശോധനക്കിടെയാണ് പെൺകുട്ടികളെ കയറിപ്പിടിച്ചത്. 2013നും 2015നും ഇടയിലായിരുന്നു സംഭവം. രാജ്യം വിട്ട് പോകുന്നതിനിടെയാണ് അഗർവാൾ പൊലീസ് പിടിയിലായത്.
Former Dayton Children’s Hospital physician Arun Aggarwal Dec. 21 pleaded guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas court records.
Aggarwal, an Indian American pediatric gastroenterologist, had previously pleaded not guilty to allegations that he improperly touched two teenage female patients.
“Between Dec. 23, 2013, and Nov. 10, 2014, the defendant, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Dayton Children’s Hospital, inappropriately touched teens during medical examinations,” said a statement released by the office of Montgomery County Prosecutor Mat Heck, according to a Dayton Daily News report. “The inappropriate touching was not a medically necessary part of the examination.”
When he gets out, the agreement states Aggarwal, who is in the U.S. on a work visa, will voluntarily return to his native India if he is not deported.
“This gives him certainty and ends a very difficult saga in his life and he’s eager to get back to India and move ahead,” Shamansky said in the report.
Aggarwal also could face financial sanctions of up to $5,000 on each count and a prison term of 18 months on each count, according to the court filing, the report said.
The agreement says he will be a Tier 1 offender, meaning he will be unable to reside within 1,000 feet of a school, preschool or daycare and must register his address every year for 15 years, it added.
Aggarwal, 40, was arrested when he flew from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., to catch a connecting flight to India.
He was held at Loudon County Jail in Virginia without bail before being extradited back to Ohio, where he is being held on $500,000 bail, and has been ordered to surrender his passport.
