Quebec Court Judge Frédéric Bénard found that Sanjeev Sirpal asked his then-girlfriend to create a false diary entry suggesting that she’d witnessed one of his patients wearing a Nazi symbol and making a racist remark in a Montreal-area waiting room.
Judge found Sanjeev Sirpal urged ex to fabricate story to discredit a patient
Morgan Lowrie · The Canadian Press
· Posted: Sep 14, 2026 3:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
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A Quebec judge said that Sanjeev Sirpal urged his then-girlfriend to fabricate a story to discredit his patient, who had made a complaint against him to the province’s doctor’s college. (Sylvain Roy Roussel/Radio-Canada)
A doctor in Quebec has been found guilty of two counts of assault and one count of counselling a person to commit an offence that was not committed.
Quebec Court Judge Frédéric Bénard found that Sanjeev Sirpal asked his then-girlfriend to create a false diary entry suggesting that she’d witnessed one of his patients wearing a Nazi symbol and making a racist remark in a Montreal-area waiting room.
Bénard told a courtroom in Laval, Que., that Sirpal had urged the woman to fabricate the story to discredit the patient,
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