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MUMBAI: A sessions court on Monday acquitted a 44-year-old doctor from south Mumbai who was booked in 2012 on charges of raping and cheating a married US-based woman. The doctor was arrested in August 2012 and granted bail by the Bombay high court two months later. The 37-year-old woman had accused the man, a US national, of being sexually involved with her on the pretext of giving her spiritual guidance. He was present in court when the verdict was pronounced.The woman filed the case in 2012, four years after the alleged offences. She alleged the doctor, a follower of a self-styled godman, offered her rose water spiked with a “stupefying substance” and had sexual intercourse with her..