Married doctor, 51, who told student, 20, she had a 'nice body' during intimate examination then asked her out for a curry is struck off

Mohammad Tariquezzaman 'smirked' as he watched female patient undress

• She visited University College Hospital, south London, with stomach pains
• Father-of-four 'laughed' when the young woman said she felt uncomfortable
• After performing internal examination, medic then asked for her number
• The devout Muslim also invited the patient out for an Indian meal 
• Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found him guilty of sexual misconduct 
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Struck off: Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman, 51, watched the patient undress, pulled down her underwear and said she had a 'nice body' at University College Hospital in south London

A married doctor who told a university student she had a 'nice body' during a consultation before asking her out for a curry has been struck off today. 

Father-of-four Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman - known as Dr Zaman - performed an 'unnecessary' internal examination when the 20-year-old woman arrived at University College Hospital, London, complaining of stomach pains.

The 51-year-old 'smirked' as he watched her undress, pulled her knickers down to her thighs and commented on her appearance during the 20-minute appointment.

When the woman, known only as Patient A, told him she felt uncomfortable, he laughed and said: ‘This isn’t the first time this has been done to you.’

Zaman, who has worked in Britain for 18 years, also took her phone number, asked whether she had a boyfriend and invited her out for an Indian meal.

The patient's mother, a nurse, contacted police after her daughter told her about the examination at the hands of Zaman.

The doctor, who also worked at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, south west London, was cleared of sexual assault by penetration after a trial at Blackfriars Crown Court in December 2011.

But he was struck by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel after they found him guilty of sexual misconduct.

The panel told Zaman that the examination was 'unnecessary' and his actions were sexually motivated. 

The devout Muslim had asked the MPTS panel to suspend him for a year.

But chairman Dr Vicki Harris told him: ‘The panel could not be confident that you had no attitudinal problems in light of your smirking, laughter and inappropriate comments to your patient during the internal vaginal examination.

‘Your actions were clearly deplorable and your breaches of Good Medical Practice [professional guidelines] were particularly serious.

‘They eroded the trust that patients are entitled to have in doctors. Notwithstanding the testimonials and the mitigation that you advanced, in particular that

relating to the financial and personal consequences of erasure, the panel has concluded that your misconduct is so serious that it is fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.’

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She added: ‘The panel concluded that your extensive and material breaches of professional standards were so serious that it is necessary to erase your name from the medical register.

‘It considered this to be the only means by which it could meet its obligation to protect patients and satisfy the wider public interest.’

Zaman had denied the allegations, insisting he was not attracted to black girls, but the fitness the panel preferred the evidence of his victim.

The accounting and finance student said she had gone to hospital suffering abdominal pain after falling ill during while working part-time in a clothes shop.

She attended the accident and emergency department and was seen by Zaman, who was working as a locum senior house officer at the time. 

He also suggested she should go to his private practice in Putney for free, even though there was no clinical reason for her to do so, the tribunal found.

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Sexual misconduct: The victim, referred to as Patient A, arrived at University College Hospital in south London complaining of stomach pains and was subjected to an 'unnecessary' internal examination by Zaman  

Zaman told her to get undressed, but failed to offer her a chaperone or provide her with any privacy, it was found.

Giving evidence, Patient A said: ‘He examined around my navel, the left side and the other parts of my abdomen. That was what he examined before the internal examination.’

She continued: ‘When he was doing the internal exam my eyes were closed because I thought it was uncomfortable.

‘It was kind of embarrassing so my eyes were closed and I opened my eyes whilst it was going on and that’s when I saw he was looking at me.’

She told the panel that Zaman smirked and laughed when she told him she felt uncomfortable and, referring to her boyfriend, said: ‘This isn’t the first time this has been done to you.’

Patient A added: ‘I did tell him I felt uncomfortable at the time and I was in a lot of pain and up until he said a certain comment and I realised where the consultation was going I honestly did think he was examining me.

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Delporable: The father-of-four also invited the female patient for a free consultation at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in Putney, south west London

‘From what he was saying and the way he was talking I realised that he was not examining me and by then it was too late for me to do anything. It’s not in my character to make a big scene or scream.’

When he had finished the procedure he joked: ‘Everything’s fine, you’re clean.’

She said: ‘He said he would contact me and he also mentioned something about an Indian restaurant and trying to find out if I was available the next day or the day afterwards.’

Zaman continues to deny the panel’s findings and says he is being ‘crucified for a sin I have not done at all’

He had been subject to a string of conditions since March 2010, one of which prevented him from conducting intimate examinations without a chaperone, except in life-threatening situations.

Zaman now has 28 days to appeal the decision. 

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