A court has acquitted a doctor accused of sexually assaulting a male Covid-19 patient in a city hospital in 2020 after he deposed that he did not know who that doctor was as the latter was wearing a PPE kit.

Metropolitan Magistrate (Mazgaon court) Pravin Modi acquitted the 33-year-old doctor on March 22 and the detailed order was made available on Monday. The patient also told the court that he cannot say what was "abnormal" in the activities of the said doctor. The court in its order said the evidence in the case is "not inspiring confidence" that the accused has done such an act which is likely to spread the infection of coronavirus.