Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — restoration hearing
Restoration to the register refused
The regulator’s term: restoration refused
What does “restoration to the register refused” mean?
A practitioner who had been struck off applied for restoration to the register and the application was refused. The original strike-off remains in effect.
Concerning Mohit Chhabra, doctor (General Medical Council 6040581).
Decision date: 30 January 2026 · Hearing started 19 January 2026 and ended 30 January 2026
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal refused Dr Mohit Chhabra's application to be restored to the medical register following his erasure in 2018 for misconduct and deficient professional performance. The tribunal found further proved allegations including offensive and threatening emails and telephone calls to MPTS and GMC staff in 2017, dismissal from a Healthcare Assistant role for misconduct in May 2023, and dishonest answers in his January 2025 restoration application. On 30 January 2026 it refused the application and directed that no further application can be made for 12 months.
Charges
Application by Dr Chhabra for his name to be restored to the Medical Register following his erasure for disciplinary reasons on 2 August 2018. The 2018 erasure followed a sequence of tribunals starting in 2015 which had found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct (offensive and threatening behaviour towards a recruitment agency contact and others) and deficient professional performance, and a deterioration in insight and engagement during periods of suspension and conditional registration. The current restoration hearing also considered new allegations of further inappropriate behaviour since erasure, including offensive emails and telephone calls to MPTS and GMC staff in 2017, dismissal for misconduct from a Healthcare Assistant role at a GP surgery in May 2023, accusatory and threatening emails to a registered nurse who had delivered training, and dishonesty in the January 2025 restoration application by failing to disclose his 2023 dismissal.
Findings
The Tribunal found a number of the new allegations proved on the balance of probabilities, including that Dr Chhabra had sent offensive emails and made offensive telephone calls to MPTS and GMC staff in 2017 (including xenophobic and racist language and language that was offensive and threatening towards an Investigation Officer), that he was dismissed from the GP surgery in May 2023 for misconduct, that he sent accusatory emails to a registered nurse in June 2023, and that he had answered 'no' dishonestly to questions about employer concerns and other matters that might raise concerns about his fitness to practise in his January 2025 restoration application. The Tribunal refused his restoration application and directed that no further application could be made for 12 months from the last application.
Source
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