By Khushwant Singh

A DOCTOR, charged with molesting a woman patient, was allowed to compound the matter by a district court on Monday.

Dr Yong Voon Pin, 48, was then granted a discharge amounting to an acquittal.

The court heard that he had given the 33-year-old woman a cheque for $51,000 to settle the matter.

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