Psychiatrist freed on charge of insulting patient's modesty

PETALING JAYA: The Magistrate's Court here has acquitted and discharged a psychiatrist on a charge of insulting the modesty of his former patient by allegedly uttering obscene words at her four years ago.

Magistrate Nurshahira Abdul Salim ordered Dr Gurdeep Singh Narain Singh, 45, to be freed after finding that the prosecution had failed to prove a prima facie case against him here on Wednesday (Jan 11).