New BrunswickPolice have laid a sexual assault charge against a New Brunswick doctor who already faced a separate allegation he sexually assaulted a patient in Nova Scotia.Sanjeev Sirpal charged Friday in Edmundston, RCMP say other charges pendingShane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Nov 14, 2025 12:46 PM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal faces a charge of sexual assault in Edmundston, where he worked in the Edmundston Regional Hospital. (NB Lung website)Police have laid a sexual assault charge against a New Brunswick doctor who already faced a separate allegation that he sexually assaulted a patient in Nova Scotia.Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal allegedly sexually assaulted a person in Edmundston, a city in northwestern New Brunswick, on Aug. 7, 2025, according to court records. The charge was laid Friday. He was released on conditions pending future court appearances.Nova Scotia RCMP announced Friday that Sirpal faces five charges of sexual assault.”These new charges are also associated to his employment as a doctor in hospital emergency rooms,” the RCMP said in a news release that referred to both Edmundston and Sackville, in southeastern New Brunswick.CBC News could only confirm Friday that one charge has been laid in court so far. The Nova Scotia RCMP didn’t respond to requests to clarify. Edmundston’s municipal police force laid the charge Friday. A spokesperson declined to comment on the case.RCMP said Sirpal is scheduled to appear in Moncton court on Feb. 27, 2026. The Edmundston case returns to court Dec. 16.Dr. Sanjeev Sirpal had worked at the Edmundston Regional Hospital. (Yves Lévesque/Radio-Canada)Meanwhile, on Monday, Sirpal is scheduled to make his first appearance in court in Amherst, N.S., on a charge laid earlier this year.The charge alleges he sexually assaulted a patient in January during an emergency room assessment at the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre near Amherst.Nova Scotia Health previously told CBC that Sirpal worked “intermittent emergency department shifts” in Nova Scotia on a locum basis between September 2023 and March 2025. Vitalité Health Network, a New Brunswick health authority that runs the Edmundston hospital, previously told CBC that Sirpal was hired in 2022 and, as of Aug. 28, was “no longer employed by the network.”Health authority won’t commentVitalité reiterated that in a statement on Friday. The statement didn’t address the latest charge in Edmundston, or address questions about whether Sirpal was on duty on the day in question and whether the allegation relates to a patient. The health authority said it “will not be commenting further.”CBC News has also requested comment from Horizon Health Network, which runs the Sackville Memorial Hospital, given the RCMP news release referencing that facility. The health authority has yet to respond.The College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick suspended Sirpal’s licence to practise in the province after he was charged in Nova Scotia in August.The college’s physician registry listed his office in the Edmundston Regional Hospital. He specializes in family medicine. The college in March imposed conditions on Sirpal’s licence to practise, which it said were unrelated to the Nova Scotia allegation, requiring: He only conduct “intimate examinations” of a patient’s sexual organs or breasts, regardless of gender, with a chaperone present. He must explain to a patient, with the chaperone present, why he is conducting the examination and include documentation of what was discussed and the identity of the chaperone in his chart. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia previously said Sirpal does not hold a licence to practise in Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia college previously told CBC that Sirpal had worked in New Brunswick since 2022. In 2023, the college said Sirpal applied to opt into the Atlantic Registry so he could practise in Nova Scotia without a further licence application. In 2022, Sirpal’s licence to practise in Quebec was revoked by the Quebec College of Physicians. The Quebec college was investigating a 2020 allegation that Sirpal conducted vaginal and breast exams on a Montreal woman with a head injury — which he denied — when it found he had lied about his academic background in obtaining his licence in 2019. The college’s disciplinary board ruled Sirpal knowingly omitted information about past academic misconduct that resulted in his dismissal from the University of Miami in 2008, thereby committing fraud. The matter led the board to permanently revoke his licence in October 2022. Sirpal appealed that ruling, and the appeal was rejected in a Sept. 11 decision.ABOUT THE AUTHORShane Magee is a Moncton-based reporter for CBC News.
Doctor faces sexual assault charges in N.B. in addition to previous N.S. charges
