One entry describes a woman he had dinner with as “super hot” but “got angry on base4, doesnt want to continue - close.” “base4” is code for sex.ĭhankhar cried on Monday when the jury read their “guilty” verdict on the charges against him, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. Police said the document includes indications that he had committed rape. While the video evidence created by Dhankhar himself was damning enough, the court also found that he kept records of his victims in a spreadsheet. In a subsequent raid of his apartment, police found videos on Dhankhar’s laptop of him sexually assaulting women who were unconscious or were making “distressed sounds,” prosecutors said.ĭhankhar pleaded not guilty later that year, thus beginning a legal process that forced the five Korean women to recount their trauma in testimonies and be subjected to a brutal cross-examination in court. Hailing from the northern Indian state of Haryana, Dhankhar is one of the founders of the Overseas Friends of BJP in Australia, which supports Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).ĭhankhar was arrested in October 2018, after a survivor woke up in the middle of sexual assault and went to the police. “I feel ashamed to admit he belongs to my country,” Madhvi Mohindra, an Indian-Australian and president of the Haryanvi Association of Australia, told Tribune India on Tuesday.
Dhankhar claimed the encounters were consensual and denied all charges.Ī prominent member of the Indian diaspora in Australia, Dhankhar has been sharply criticised by his own community following his trial and conviction. Traces of sedatives were found in the blood and hair of two of the women, the District Court of New South Wales in Sydney was told.
Then he would make an excuse to take them to his apartment, such as claiming that he needed to pick up his car keys so he could drive them home, before serving them spiked wine or ice-cream. The five survivors said Dhankhar lured them to his apartment in similar ways: He invited the women to the Hilton hotel for a fake job interview and followed it up with dinner at a Korean restaurant.
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