FORMER Leigh doctor Christopher Kumar has been charged with two offences of indecent assault.

The doctor, who practised at the Siloam Medical Centre in Railway Road, is to appear in Leigh Magistrates' Court when a committal date in April is expected to be fixed.

Police at Leigh confirmed this week that the doctor, who lives in Culcheth, had been charged.

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