An Indian-born doctor charged with sexually assaulting two women in Ipswich, Queensland, has been granted bail with a $100,000 surety.
General practitioner Dushyant Kumar Singh, who graduated from medical school in Nepal, appeared in Brisbane’s Supreme Court on Friday to apply for bail after last month being charged with 35 offences, including rape, sexual assault, torture, supply dangerous drugs and attempting to pervert justice.
On Tuesday Justice Soraya Ryan told the court Singh allegedly posed an “obvious risk” to women but said her hesitation due to her “concern about the applicant’s character” could be addressed by strict conditions, The Courier Mail reported.
She granted Singh bail on the condition he does not leave the state or use drugs, that he surrender his passport and not approach an international departure point, use only one phone, provide his devices to police on request, and with a no contact provision.
Singh is yet to enter a plea.
The court heard Singh was charged with 20 offences – including four counts each of sexual assault and common assault, two counts of rape, one count each of assault with intent to commit rape, torture, stalking, threatening violence, deprivation of liberty and five counts of supplying drugs – against a woman, complainant A, in early April.
He was granted bail but on April 18 was charged with another 14 offences – seven counts of sexual assault, three counts of deprivation of liberty, two counts of common assault, and one count each of assault with intention to commit rape and stalking – against a second woman, complainant B, and remanded in custody.
Justice Ryan told the court an additional charge of attempting to pervert justice involved Singh contacting a third woman, complainant C, to allegedly ask her to make a statement on his behalf in exchange for $100,000.
“He asked her to communicate with him on his wife’s phone because he believed his own phone was being tapped,” she told the court.
“Separately … he asked complainant C to text complainant A and to tell her to ‘take it back’. The applicant was persistent and complainant C sent a message to complainant A which read ‘he wants you to take it back cause he’ll go to jail’.”
Singh’s medical registration was suspended by Queensland’s health ombudsman on April 15, and his suspension will be in effect until it is revoked or the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal sets aside the decision.
The court heard Singh will not challenge the suspension, but will work from home on an AI diagnostic tool while on bail.
Header image: Dushyant Kumar Singh (Healthengine).
