A Christchurch doctor was a short-term locum covering leave when he indecently assaulted a patient, the clinic at which the offending occurred confirms. Rakesh Kumar Chawdhry, 62, was in February jailed for four years and three months after a judge found him guilty of 11 charges of indecent assault and one of sexual violation against patients. He pleaded guilty to two new indecent assault charges on Friday in the Christchurch District Court. The charges were laid after several more more complainants came forward after seeing media coverage of Chawdhry’s trial last year. The new charges related to sexual health examinations by Chawdhry, who immigrated to New Zealand from India in 2003. One of the charges involved a 26-year-old man, who went to the Amberley Medical Centre for a sexually-transmitted infection (STI) check in 2011.
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