Australia: Indian-origin man found guilty of drugging, raping five Korean women

A district courtroom docket jury in Sydney, Australia on Monday discovered Indian-foundation Balesh Dhankhar responsible of drugging and raping 5 Korean ladies after luring them to his condo the usage of faux activity ads.

He has been defined as “one of the worst rapists” withinside the city`s current history.

Dhankhar, a records professional had confronted trial over 39 costs which include thirteen counts of rape devoted among January and October 2018.

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) suggested that police discovered dozens of films of him sexually assaulting the ladies once they raided his condo in Sydney in October 2018. “The films have been taken care of into folders, every labelled with a Korean woman`s name. Then detectives discovered a sequence of bookmarks in Dhankhar`s browser,” SMH said.

The SMH suggested that all of it started out with a faux activity advert for Korean translators published in 2017. Dhankhar interviewed the sufferers on the Hilton lodge cafe earlier than pressuring them into dinner, soju and wine.

Then, Dhankhar could make an excuse to head as much as his condo in World Square Tower. “He every now and then promised them a view of the Opera House, or claimed he wished his vehicle keys.”

Dhankhar gave the ladies wine or ice-cream laced with sedatives; lines have been discovered withinside the blood and hair of  sufferers. “His spouse and own circle of relatives did now no longer stay in Australia on the time,” SMH suggested.

He became arrested on October 21, 2018, after his 5th sufferer wakened at the same time as he became raping her, and despatched messages to a chum at the same time as hiding withinside the bathroom, the Daily Mail suggested.

The accused struggled to give an explanation for a name listing of the individuals who spoke back to his on-line advert. “The spreadsheet consists of his sufferers, whether or not he concept they have been attractive, whether or not that they’d intercourse and the way they reacted to being drugged and abused,” the SMH suggested.

Dhankhar recorded his acts the usage of a digital digicam hidden in his bedside alarm clock and on his phone

Dhankhar offered his own circle of relatives`s belongings and homes to fund his felony defence. His selection to contest the costs approach he now faces a few years in jail for his crimes.

He requested to stay on bail however Judge Michael King refused earlier than Dhankhar became handcuffed and led away with the aid of using officers.

Dhankhar, 43, will face courtroom docket once more in May and might be sentenced later withinside the year, a media record said.