Dr Suman Khulbe, an Indian-origin doctor in Canada, was found guilty of sexually abusing a person and engaging in “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct” with two other people. In light of a court’s ruling last week, the family physician’s medical license was consequently suspended.
The case came under scrutiny after multiple clients came forward with allegations of the doctor’s misconduct. Some even claimed that she assaulted them as they were drugged-up during check-ups at her own clinic, according to the Daily Mail.
The Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal announced its firm decision against Khulbe after 15-day-long hearings. The panel also drew focus on the Indian-origin doctor’s lack of professional boundaries, noting she viewed her patients as “her friends, her social life, her athletic life and her business partners.”
The story contains disturbing mentions of sexual abuse.
As seen on her Instagram feed, Suman Khulbe has defended herself across social media posts. However, she ultimately admitted to have participated in sexual acts with one patient. According to the court’s decision documents, the Canadian physician‘s engagement with her client involved acts like kissing, masturbation and “erotic prostate massage.” Additionally, Khulbe even confessed to resorting to unprofessional behaviour “in her communications and contact” with two other people.
Responding to the current development in connection with Khulbe’s case, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) shared in a statement to the Daily Mail, “With respect to disciplinary action, effective August 23, 2025, the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal (OPSDT) found that Dr. Suman Khulbe committed sexual abuse and engaged in disgraceful, dishonorable and unprofessional misconduct.”
The regulatory agency confirmed that the physician had been suspended on an “interim basis” as a penalty hearing is still pending. The same has been scheduled for November 24, 2025.
What do we know about Dr Suman Khulbe?
According to the National Post, Khulbe follows the Hindu faith and was raised in an “Indian home with traditional values.” She started her family medicine practice in 2001. She then went on to purchase a house in Kanata. Ontario, the next year. The location eventually became her clinic as well.
According to her Instagram bio, she has long been associated with regenerative medicine, peptide therapy, anti-aging medicine and biohacking or performance optimisation. Her official website ‘drkhulbe.com’ details she is “board certified in Aesthetic Medicine from the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine and is one of the first physicians in Canada to work with PRP.”
In her interaction with the National Post, she estimated that her license would be revoked for five years.
Details of relationship with a patient revealed
Although the client she had an intimate relationship with hasn’t been formally named in public, he has been identified as ‘Patient A.’ As per court documents, this particular client happened to be her trainer, whom she met at her local CrossFit gym. Khulbe enrolled at the place in 2015. The following year, Patient A professionally reached out to the family physician for the time time.
To facilitate his athletic recover, he resorted to receiving IV vitamin therapy every week or two. Despite the repeated treatments, court docs suggested that the person was never charged.
In 2017, treatments for Patient A’s back and shoulder pain, and possibly even pneumonia, kicked off at Khulbe’s clinic. Subsequently, Dr Suman began giving the patient procaine, an anesthetic drug generally used to relieve pain. It numbs the affected areas in the process. At first, the drug was given as part of vitamin therapy, but eventually it was injected. As Patient A took the procaine for every session, it would result in “agitation, nervousness and euphoria.”
At one point, the pair also allegedly discussed joining forced for a shared business venture. In 2018, Patient A’s deep tissue physical therapy began. According to the tribunal decision, these sessions first began with his clothes on, eventually they went on with the patient in his boxers and then with no clothes.
The documents further list a detailed account of both parties partaking in sexual acts that took place in Khulbe’s bedroom upstairs despite Patient A being married. The client said in November 2018 that the doctor shared her suspicions about the patient’s wife engaging in an affair. She is also believed to have told him that the child she was carrying was not his.
According to the records, once the relationship between Patient A and Khulbe ended, he believed he had been “groomed, drugged and abused.” As per his account of the event, he claimed to have been under procaine’s influence during the sexual acts. “Patient A testified that he was not in a normal, rational state of mind,” the documents stated.
Indian-origin Canadian doctor also accused a former employee of blackmail and extortion
According to a July 7 post on her Instagram feed, she claimed that over five years ago, an ex-employee attempted to blackmail and extort her. “They threatened to report me to the CPSO, CRA, and labour board unless I paid thousands of dollars,” she wrote in the caption. She further revealed that as she refused to the demands, her former employee filed complaints against her.
These were all “filled with false claims,” suggesting she was an “an alcoholic, a drug addict, and that I abused patients with Procaine, a non-addictive anesthetic.” She also insisted that someone she once shared a close relationship with backed these claims, “misrepresented that relationship and helped weaponise it against me.”
Due to the case’s emergence, Khulbe wrote that CPSO investigators raided her home and clinic without a warrant in November 2020. “They seized $6,000+ in non-narcotic supplies — including Procaine. Section 75 bypasses Charter rights,” she added. “No warrant. No oversight.” However, the following year she was cleared of those concerns after blood, urine and hair testing.