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Balesh Dhankhar is one of the worst rapists in Sydney’s recent history.
A District Court jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre on Monday found the politically connected predator lured five women into a web of lies, paralysed them with drugs and hoarded trophies of his callous assaults.
But the verdict could only come after Dhankhar forced those women to face gruelling cross-examination in court, and condemned the jury to watch traumatic recordings of his attacks.
Politics and the predator
In the years leading up to the trial, Dhankhar guarded his privacy – he sought suppression orders and, when that failed, sprinted away from cameras outside court.
He removed his photographs from social media and wore masks in public. But his personal website, archived online, spruiked connections to India’s elite even as his trial loomed.
Dhankhar led the Overseas Friends of the BJP, an official group supporting India’s ruling party, a position that allowed him to rub shoulders with the most powerful in Sydney’s Indian diaspora.
Photographs on his website show him meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and speaking at NSW government events.
“I see life through light, and remaining patches of darkness make beautiful image,” Dhankhar wrote on the website in 2021.
When police raided Dhankhar’s CBD apartment in October 2018, they found dozens of videos of him having sex with women.
Sometimes the women are unconscious, other times they struggle and groan as if in a nightmare.
The videos were sorted into folders, each labelled with a Korean woman’s name. Then detectives found a series of bookmarks in Dhankhar’s browser.
“Small drugged Korean f---ed webcam roleplay” one video bookmarked on his computer was titled.
Another video went for 95 minutes, a montage of unconscious women subjected to sex.
The NSW 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 the trial this month.
“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 unconscious, impaired,” Dhankhar insisted.
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...of-attacks-on-five-women-20230418-p5d1gb.html
A District Court jury in Sydney’s Downing Centre on Monday found the politically connected predator lured five women into a web of lies, paralysed them with drugs and hoarded trophies of his callous assaults.
But the verdict could only come after Dhankhar forced those women to face gruelling cross-examination in court, and condemned the jury to watch traumatic recordings of his attacks.
Politics and the predator
In the years leading up to the trial, Dhankhar guarded his privacy – he sought suppression orders and, when that failed, sprinted away from cameras outside court.
He removed his photographs from social media and wore masks in public. But his personal website, archived online, spruiked connections to India’s elite even as his trial loomed.
Dhankhar led the Overseas Friends of the BJP, an official group supporting India’s ruling party, a position that allowed him to rub shoulders with the most powerful in Sydney’s Indian diaspora.
Photographs on his website show him meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and speaking at NSW government events.
“I see life through light, and remaining patches of darkness make beautiful image,” Dhankhar wrote on the website in 2021.
When police raided Dhankhar’s CBD apartment in October 2018, they found dozens of videos of him having sex with women.
Sometimes the women are unconscious, other times they struggle and groan as if in a nightmare.
The videos were sorted into folders, each labelled with a Korean woman’s name. Then detectives found a series of bookmarks in Dhankhar’s browser.
“Small drugged Korean f---ed webcam roleplay” one video bookmarked on his computer was titled.
Another video went for 95 minutes, a montage of unconscious women subjected to sex.
The NSW 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 the trial this month.
“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 unconscious, impaired,” Dhankhar insisted.
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...of-attacks-on-five-women-20230418-p5d1gb.html
