Overview

• Vishal Sadafule was arrested in early 2020 after a doctor alleged he filmed her in a changing room at BYL Nair Hospital on December 31, 2019, but the trial only concluded on May 29, 2025.
• Although his phone was seized and sent to a forensic lab, no report was ever submitted to the court, a lapse the magistrate deemed a fatal flaw in the prosecution’s case.
• Investigators never collected CCTV footage from outside the changing room, leaving a key piece of evidence unexamined.
• The victim and two colleagues testified at trial but the defense successfully argued that their statements lacked corroborative proof.
• Magistrate D M Mata ruled that gaps in evidence in cases where allegations are hard to refute warrant granting the accused the benefit of the doubt.