LONDON: The second trial which lasted four days of Doctor Krishna M. Pardhy, the 68-year old Gynaecological Surgeon, which Mr. Justice Birkett said was “almost, in the literal sense a matter of life and death for him” ended at the Birmingham Assize Court in a verdict of ‘not guilty’ and he was discharged, cables the Special Correspondent of the Hindu.

Dr. Pardhy had been charged with assaulting a patient under the guise of medical examination. He denied the charge from the very beginning. At the last Assizes, the jury failed to agree after a five-day hearing. A report in Bombay Chronicle says: Dr. Pardhy had been charged with criminally assaulting under the guise of medical examination his patient 36-year-old Mrs. Lucy May Pearson when her husband was sitting behind a screen a few yards in the same room where Lucy was being examined by Dr. Pardhy.

In the witness-box Dr. Pardhy denied the offence. He said he had practiced in Birmingham for 35 years, had suffered from prostatitis, and at the time of the alleged offence was tired after performing six operations.…

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2018