Indian-origin man rapes 5 Korean women in Australia.
Balesh Dhankhar, a famous member of Australia’s Indian community, was found guilty of raping Korean women in Sydney after drugging them, according to a media report on Monday, calling him “one of the worst rapists” in the city’s recent history.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a District Court jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre determined the “politically connected predator” enticed five Korean women into a web of falsehoods, incapacitated them with drugs, and stockpiled souvenirs of his heartless crimes on Monday.
He was also the former chief of the ‘Overseas Friends of the BJP’ in Australia, according to the report.
According to the report, Dhankhar also recorded his sexual assaults with a camera disguised in his bedside alarm clock and on his phone.
“Balesh Dhankhar is one of Sydney’s worst rapists in recent history,” the statement stated.
Dhankhar, a data expert, sobbed as the jury foreman answered “guilty” to each of the 39 accusations leveled against him on Monday.
He requested that he be released on bond, but Judge Michael King refused, and Dhankhar was detained and carried away by officers.
Dhankhar, 43, will appear in court again in May and will be punished later this year, according to the article.
His wife stood by him in court, frequently in tears.
Dhankhar only cried once, when he said that he lied to women because he was lonely after an extramarital affair ended.
According to the story, he blamed his loneliness on the “unfulfilling” intimacy of his marriage.
To afford his legal defence, Dhankhar sold his family’s assets and properties. He was paired with a rising star barrister.
According to the article, investigators discovered dozens of videos of Dhankar with other women throughout 2018.
The women are sometimes unconscious, and at other times they struggle and groan as though in a nightmare.
The movies were organized into folders, each identified with the name of a Korean woman. The detectives then discovered a string of bookmarks on Dhankhar’s browser.
One video, a montage of unconscious women exposed to sex, lasted 95 minutes.
The New South Wales Police officer in charge of Dhankhar’s case, Sergeant Katrina Gyde, suspected Dhankhar was living out a disturbed fantasy.
“The videos (bookmarked online) are very similar to the videos you took,” Crown prosecutor Kate Nightingale said in this month’s trial.
“Not at all,” Dhankhar replied.
“You thought it was fun… watching Korean women who were unconscious, impaired,” the prosecutor said.
“It is just a porn video, it has nothing to do with the unconscious, impaired,” Dhankhar insisted.
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Dhankhar videotaped his sexual assaults on his phone and with a camera disguised in his bedside alarm clock.
The contents of the videos are too upsetting to go into detail.
As they saw the videos, the jurors writhed.
According to the report, at one point it became too much for them and they requested to be sent home early.
