A youth from Rewari in Haryana has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for raping in Australia. A Sydney court has sentenced Balesh Dhankhar of Rewari to this punishment for raping Korean women. Dhankhar has been the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporting organization ‘Overseas Friends of BJP’ in Australia. The accused has also posted photos of many programs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his social media. Balesh went to Australia as a student in 2006, where he worked as a data visualization consultant in many big companies after studying. During this time he raped 5 women of Korean origin. Balesh Dhankhar was arrested in 2018. Date-rape drugs and a video recorder in the form of a clock radio were recovered in a police raid at the Sydney Central Business District Unit. Now read what is the whole matter… Accused of rape by luring job
Balesh Dhankhar was accused of calling 5 Korean women to meet him in 2017 on the pretext of taking an interview by luring them with a job and then raping them by giving them drugs. When the police raided Dhankhar’s apartment in October 2018, dozens of such videos of him having sex with women were found with him, which were made with a hidden camera. Suppression order taken from the court after arrest
In 2018, the police arrested Balesh but suddenly Balesh Dhankhar went missing. There was no news about him in the media as well because Dhankhar took a suppression order from the court as soon as the case started, due to which there was a ban on publishing news about him. Hearing started again in 2023
The news of this case came in the media again in 2023 when the hearing of this case started and the suppression order was removed. Then it came to light that the police had charged Dhankhar with 39 charges of sexual assault in the case of raping 5 Korean women. Dhankhar did not confess his crime and a very expensive and reputed lawyer from Sydney fought his case. During the trial, the entire list of Dhankhar’s crimes came to light. The jury was shown several hours of video footage in which Dhankhar could be seen having sex with women, while some women appeared to be unconscious. He used to trap by giving fake advertisements
In 2023 itself, the public prosecutor, while giving information about this case, had said that Dhankhar was making Korean women his victims. Many other items of Korean women were also recovered from him. He used to advertise the job of Korean translator on local social media and e-commerce website Gumtree. The women who applied were called for an interview at a luxurious hotel in Sydney. Then on some pretext, he would take them to his room and do wrong things. Judge said – pre-planned and cunning conduct
Sydney District Court Judge Michael King, while sentencing Dhankhar, said that “the offender’s conduct was pre-planned, planned, cunning and extremely violent and showed that his desire for sexual satisfaction was in complete and blatant disregard for each victim.” After pronouncing the 40-year sentence, the court also said that it will have a non-parole period of 30 years. Australian media published all this about Dhankhar… Police officer Sergeant Katrina made the revelation
According to the news published about Balesh Dhankhar in the Australian media, Dhankhar’s case was led by Sergeant Katrina. She is a police officer of New South Wales (NSW). She told that as soon as she received the complaint of Korean women, she suspected Balesh from the very first day. Balesh felt that he would not be caught. Sergeant Katrina says that Dhankhar was living in a disturbed imagination. Targeted lonely and newly arrived women in Sydney
New South Wales Police said that Balesh Dhankhar has raped as part of a well-planned move. He targeted only those women in Sydney who had recently arrived or were living alone. These included women who were unemployed and were searching for jobs online.
He deceived such women by giving job advertisements. Dhankhar also accepted this after a long debate in the court. What did the rape victims tell the jury
In front of the jury, the Korean rape victims said that Dhankhar had raped them. They told the jury that he met them at the Hilton Cafe. After this, he took them to a Korean restaurant. Later, they were taken to an apartment on some pretext. The women said that after going to the apartment, they were offered alcohol. As soon as they drank the alcohol, they fainted. He had called us for a job interview for translators in 2017. Dhankhar denied in court that the porn video was his.
According to a Sydney newspaper, during the trial, the Korean women’s lawyer Kate Nightingale said that all the videos of the women have been bookmarked online. He told Dhankhar that these videos are similar to the videos taken by you. To this Dhankhar replied… absolutely not. The lawyer further said, what made you think that watching unconscious Korean women was fun. Many of them were disabled. To this Dhankhar said, this is just a porn video. It has nothing to do with unconsciousness or disability. Several videos of 95-95 minutes were found in the computer. When the police raided, a folder of videos was found in his computer. Some videos were sorted in it, each with the name of a Korean woman written on it. The length of the videos was up to 95-95 minutes, in which unconscious women were forced to have sex. Apart from this, a series of bookmarks were found in the browser of the computer, which had the title ‘Small intoxicated Korean woman webcam role play’. Balesh Dhankhar came to India in 2014 for the swearing-in ceremony of the PM. Balesh Dhankhar has been the Australian President of Overseas Friends of BJP. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia in November 2014, Balesh Dhankhar was seen very active in welcoming him. Balesh also posted many pictures of the program on his social media account during that time. Dhankhar also worked as the spokesperson of Hindu Council of Australia. Not only this, Balesh also came to India in May 2014 to attend the first swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Balesh’s pictures with leaders of various organizations including BJP… Congress also surrounded BJP in the case of Balesh Dhankhar, posted on X
After Balesh Dhankhar was sentenced to 40 years in Australia, Congress has also attacked BJP. A post has been posted in this regard on the social media platform X by the Congress party. It reads- ‘Modi’s favorite Balesh Dhankhar has been sentenced to 40 years in Australia, this news has come today on Women’s Day’. Apart from this, Congress leader Supriya Shrinet has also posted a photo of Balesh with PM Modi on X. He quipped that the message on Women’s Day is clear: Save daughters from BJP.
