Indian doctor gets life for filming patients nude

Posted 02 8 2008 3:10AM

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) An Indian doctor who secretly filmed his patients and put their naked pictures on the Internet was sentenced to life on Thursday.

Three accomplices of orthopedic physician L. Prakash were sentenced to seven years each by a court in the southern city of Chennai for helping him run a pornographic racket on the Internet.

Thenkodi Wilson, a public prosecutor, told reporters that Prakash was found guilty of filming his women patients on a hidden camera and running the videos on paid Web sites.

He was also charged with having lured people to his farm house for sex.

His accomplices, two of them medical staff, were found guilty of criminal intimidation and kidnapping or abduction for sex.

(Writing by Krittivas Mukherjee; Editing by Bill Tarrant)