Mohan Babu

Introduction

Dr Mohan Babu is a doctor formerly registered with the General Medical Council (GMC number 6097131) who worked in the United Kingdom as a locum general practitioner. On 31 January 2024 at Portsmouth Crown Court he was convicted of four counts of sexual assault on a female. The offences concerned three of his own patients and were committed between 2019 and 2021 while he was working as a locum GP. 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. In May 2026, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal found that his fitness to practise is impaired by reason of his conviction, concluded that his conduct was incompatible with continued registration, and erased his name from the medical register.

Background Information

The determination concerns Mohan Babu, a doctor who was on the GMC register under the number 6097131 and who worked as a locum GP. The criminal conduct at the centre of the case took place between 2019 and 2021 and involved the sexual assault of three of his patients during that period.

The Tribunal also recorded that, before the offending came before it, Dr Babu had previously signed an undertaking not to examine female patients without a chaperone, and that he had continued the behaviour despite that undertaking. This is stated by the Tribunal as part of its assessment of the case rather than as a separate court finding. His substantive hearing sat from 12 May 2026 to 14 May 2026, with the decision dated 14 May 2026. Throughout the proceedings, Dr Babu denied the offences.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Two categories of finding appear in this case. The conviction on 31 January 2024 and the sentence imposed on 12 April 2024 are court-adjudicated criminal facts, established to the criminal standard and put before the Tribunal by way of a certificate of conviction. Everything else recorded here — the conclusions that his fitness to practise is impaired, that the conviction sits at the high end of the spectrum of seriousness, that the conduct was predatory and incompatible with continued registration, and that there is a high current and ongoing risk to public protection — consists of civil-standard findings made by the Tribunal as a regulatory body. Those regulatory conclusions are not criminal adjudications.

The Allegation before the Tribunal, 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.

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.

In setting out the features that increased the seriousness of the case, the Tribunal identified the offending as repeated and persistent, occurring against three patients between 2019 and 2021. The victims were his patients and therefore vulnerable, with two being particularly vulnerable. The conduct was an abuse of his professional position of trust as their GP, which the Tribunal characterised as predatory. The Tribunal also noted that he had continued the behaviour despite having previously signed an undertaking not to examine female patients without a chaperone. It found there were no factors reducing the seriousness.

The Tribunal further noted that Dr Babu denied the offences and had provided no evidence of insight or remediation.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The documented consequences of the case unfolded in two stages: criminal and regulatory.

At the criminal stage, Dr Babu was sentenced on 12 April 2024 to 42 months’ imprisonment. In addition to the term of imprisonment, he was made subject to a sexual harm prevention order for 10 years and required to register with the police indefinitely.

At the regulatory stage, 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 that the conduct was incompatible with continued registration, erased his name from the medical register, and imposed an immediate order of suspension.

Current Status

Dr Babu has been struck off the UK medical register. Erasure removes a practitioner from the register, so he is no longer permitted to practise the profession in the United Kingdom. The erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite, and the immediate order of suspension prevents practice in the interim. The criminal disposals also stand: the 42-month sentence, the 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and the indefinite police registration requirement.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ended Dr Babu’s ability to work as a doctor in the United Kingdom, and the Tribunal’s conclusion that his conduct was incompatible with continued registration sets a high bar against restoration, which could only be considered at a review after a minimum of five years. Beyond the professional consequences, the criminal disposals arising from the convictions themselves remain: the prison sentence, the 10-year sexual harm prevention order, and the indefinite police registration requirement. The Tribunal’s characterisation of the offending as predatory, its finding of no insight or remediation, and its conclusion that there were no factors reducing the seriousness form the permanent regulatory record of the case.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Mohan Babu — Struck off the register · 14 May 2026,” 14 May 2026.source