According to a media report on Monday, Balesh Dhankhar, a well-known member of the Indian community in Australia, was convicted of drugging and raping five Korean women in Sydney. The report called him "one of the worst rapists" in the city's recent history.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, a District Court jury in Sydney's Downing Centre concluded the "politically connected predator" seduced five Korean women into a web of falsehoods, drugged them into paralysis, and hoarded the trophies of his heartless crimes.
Additionally, it stated that he had previously served as the leader of Australia's "Overseas Friends of the BJP." According to the report, Dhankhar also captured footage of his sexual assaults on his phone and a camera disguised in his alarm clock by the bed.
It declared that Balesh Dhankhar was among the worst rapists in recent Sydney history.
On Monday, as the jury foreman responded "guilty" to each of the 39 accusations brought against Dhankhar, a data expert, he sobbed.
Before Dhankhar was handcuffed and carried away by police, Judge Michael King rejected his request to continue being free on bail. Dhankhar, 43, will return to court in May and get his punishment later this year, according to the newspaper. His wife, who frequently sobbed in court, stood by him.
After an extramarital affair ended, Dhankhar shed a tear while admitting that he had lied to women because he was lonely. According to the report, he attributed his loneliness to his marriage's "unfulfilling" intimacy.
Dhankhar liquidated the possessions and assets of his family to pay for his legal defense. A rising star barrister was given the case. According to the article, investigators discovered other footage of Dhankar with different women throughout 2018. The women can be awake at times or struggle and groan as if having a nightmare.
Each folder containing the movies was named after a Korean woman. Then, investigators discovered several bookmarks in Dhankhar's browser.
One film, which was a montage of unconscious women being sexually assaulted, lasted 95 minutes.
Sergeant Katrina Gyde, the New South Wales Police officer in charge of Dhankhar's case, had a suspicion that he was acting out a strange dream.
In this month's trial, Crown Attorney Kate Nightingale argued that "the videos (bookmarked online) are very similar to the videos you took." Absolutely not, Dhankhar retorted.
The prosecutor remarked, "You thought it was amusing... watching Korean women who were unconscious, impaired." Dhankhar asserted, "It is just a porn video; it has nothing to do with the unconscious, or handicapped.
Dhankhar secretly videotaped his sexual assaults on his phone and with a camera disguised in his nightstand alarm clock. The video's substance is too upsetting to go into detail about. As they viewed the videos, the jurors writhed. The report stated that at one point it got to be too much and they requested to be sent home early.
