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Indian Gets 40-Year Jail in Australia for Sexually Assaulting 5 Women
Hindustan Times Delhi
|March 09, 2025
An Indian community leader in Australia has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with a non-parole period of 30 years, for the "premeditated and elaborately executed" rapes of five Korean women, according to a media report.
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SYDNEY:
Balesh Dhankhar, 43, sat in the docks and showed no emotion as he was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court on Friday.
Dhankhar posted fake job advertisements to lure women before drugging them in or near his home in Sydney. The former IT consultant then groped and raped the women, the Australian Associated Press reported.
This story is from the March 09, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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