Arun Bagga
Introduction
Arun Bagga was a general practitioner who practised in Windsor and Maidenhead and whose name stood on the General Medical Council (GMC) register until July 2025. Following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing, a tribunal found that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of his criminal convictions and directed that he be struck off the medical register with immediate effect, “for the protection of the public”. The decision rested on two criminal sentences imposed at Reading Crown Court in less than two years: thirty months’ imprisonment in January 2023 for controlling and coercive behaviour, and a suspended sentence in October 2024 for charges including assault. The panel found that if Bagga were allowed to remain on the register, “public confidence in the medical profession would be negatively impacted”.
Background Information
The published record identifies Bagga as a GP, aged 55 at the time of the BBC’s July 2025 report, practising in Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire. The record this page draws on does not name his practice or employer, and this page does not guess at them. His criminal career ran in parallel with his medical one: the controlling and coercive behaviour for which he was jailed in January 2023 was followed within twenty-one months by a further conviction at the same court — October 2024, charges including assault — drawing a suspended sentence, a rehabilitation activity requirement and 100 hours of unpaid work. The MPTS hearing that ended his registration took place against that backdrop, the tribunal weighing convictions from two separate Crown Court proceedings in reaching its decision. The MPTS case is listed as a conviction/caution matter, decided on the basis of the criminal findings rather than contested clinical allegations.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convicted, not merely alleged. The erasure rests on criminal convictions recorded at Reading Crown Court. The tribunal’s role was to assess the consequence for his registration; the convictions themselves were not in dispute.
The first and gravest was the January 2023 conviction for controlling and coercive behaviour, for which Bagga, then practising as a GP in Windsor and Maidenhead, was sentenced to thirty months in prison. Controlling or coercive behaviour is an offence covering a pattern of acts — isolation, surveillance, threats, humiliation — used to dominate a victim; the BBC report records the sentence but does not reproduce the sentencing judge’s remarks, and this page does not invent them.
The second was the October 2024 conviction at the same court on charges including assault, met with a suspended sentence, a rehabilitation activity requirement and 100 hours of unpaid work. Two Crown Court convictions in under two years — one of imprisonment, one of assault — formed the record the tribunal had to judge. The MPTS proceedings opened in January 2025, were adjourned part-heard, and concluded on 4 July 2025, the tribunal having previously sat in June. The tribunal found Bagga’s fitness to practise impaired by reason of his convictions and ordered erasure with immediate effect, expressly on public-protection grounds, finding that his continued registration would damage public confidence in the medical profession.
Public Reaction and Consequences
BBC Berkshire reported the strike-off on 10 July 2025, days after the tribunal concluded, under the headline “GP struck off after coercive control conviction”. The published record contains no public statement from Bagga responding to either the convictions or the erasure, and no statements from representatives or campaign groups. The concrete consequences are the criminal sentences themselves — the prison term, the suspended sentence with its requirements — and the erasure from the medical register, which ends his ability to hold a licence to practise anywhere in the United Kingdom.
The speed of the regulatory response — erasure within days of the tribunal’s final sitting, roughly two years after the first conviction — reflects the tribunal’s stated reasoning that protection of the public and confidence in the profession left no room for a lesser sanction.
Current Status
Bagga is struck off the UK medical register, erased by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service with immediate effect following the conclusion of the hearing on 4 July 2025. The published record shows no appeal and no application for restoration. His criminal record — the 2023 custodial sentence and the 2024 suspended sentence — stands independently of the register and persists on its own terms. The record this page draws on contains no information about his circumstances since the strike-off, and nothing here should be read as going beyond it.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ends Bagga’s medical career in the United Kingdom. Restoration after erasure requires a successful application to the regulator, and with two recent Crown Court convictions — including one of assault and one drawing a thirty-month prison term — on the record, the evidential bar is severe; no such application appears in the published record. The convictions themselves remain matters of criminal record regardless of his registration status. Beyond what the published record states, nothing is known here about his life or location since the erasure.