Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — substantive hearing
MPTS tribunal erases Dr Mohan Babu after sexual assault convictions against patients
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel has erased GP Dr Mohan Babu from the medical register after he was convicted of four counts of sexual assault against three female patients and jailed for 42 months. The tribunal imposed an immediate order of suspension.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 14 May 2026 · Updated 8 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Mohan Babu, doctor (General Medical Council 6097131).
Decision date: 14 May 2026 · Hearing started 12 May 2026 and ended 14 May 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal found that Dr Mohan Babu's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his conviction. In January 2024 he was convicted at Portsmouth Crown Court of four counts of sexual assault against three female patients, committed while he worked as a locum GP, and was sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment. The tribunal found the conduct incompatible with continued registration, erased his name from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Charges
The Allegation, found proved on the basis of a certificate of conviction, was that on 31 January 2024 at Portsmouth Crown Court Dr Babu was convicted of four counts of sexual assault on a female, and that on 12 April 2024 he was sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment, made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years, and required to register with the police indefinitely. The convictions related to the sexual assault of three of his patients between 2019 and 2021 while he was working as a locum GP.
Findings
The Tribunal accepted the certificate of conviction as conclusive evidence and found the conviction at the high end of the spectrum of seriousness. It found that the offending was repeated and persistent, involved vulnerable patients and was an abuse of Dr Babu's professional position of trust, and that there was no mitigating context. Noting that he had denied the offences and had provided no evidence of insight or remediation, the Tribunal found a high current and ongoing risk to all three limbs of public protection and that his fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his conviction. It determined the conduct was incompatible with continued registration, erased his name from the medical register and imposed an immediate order of suspension.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
The Tribunal identified several features increasing the seriousness of the conviction: the offending was repeated and persistent, occurring against three patients between 2019 and 2021; the victims were his patients and therefore vulnerable, with two being particularly vulnerable; and the conduct was an abuse of Dr Babu's professional position of trust as their GP, which the Tribunal characterised as predatory. It also noted he had continued the behaviour despite having previously signed an undertaking not to examine female patients without a chaperone. The Tribunal found there were no factors reducing the seriousness.
Source
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